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Encounter the Power! 

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Beef Up Your A500 

28 Ways To Upgrade 

RAM Buyer's Guide 

47 Memory Boosters 

Choosing a Monitor 

13 Models Compared 



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"Light Table" Animation 
Sync Your Video System 

REVIEWS: Video Toaster 2.0 

SuperJAM RayDance 
...Games & More! 



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HINK ALL 040 
ACCELERATORS ARE THE SAME? 

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As a high power Amiga 1 ' 3000/3000T 
user you need a 68040 accelerator 
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reason only.,, SPEED! 

And once you know what makes one 
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the only board you'll want is the 
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WATCH OUT FOR SLOW DRAM B0TTLFMCKS 

Yes, all 68040 CPU's are created equal 
but this doesn't mean that all accelerator 
boards allow your A3000 to make the 
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The A3000 was designed to work with 
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Think of this as a giant 8MB cache which 
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performance speeds you paid for. 

SHOP SMART: COMPARE THESE G-FORCE 040 
SPECS TG ANY OTHER '040 ACCELERATOR 

t- 68040 CPU running at 28Mhz provid- 
ing 22 MIPS and 3.75 MFLOPS! 
NOTE: The 68040 incorporates a CPU, 
MMU, FPU and separate 4KB data and 
instruction caches on a single chip. 




P- to 8MB of onboard, 
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Fully auto-configured, user-install- 
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► DRAM controller design fully supports 
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CONTENTS 



VOLUME 8, NUMBER 6, JUNE 1992 



FEATURES 

A500 Expansion: The "Inside" 

STORY By Tim Walsh 26 

Internal expansion ofyour system is ap- 
pealing because it offers a neat, compact 
.solution al I under one cover. But up- 
grading die Amiga 500 internally is a lot 
trickier than with tlte A2000 or A3000. 
Here's some expert advice and a host of 
hardware for tiiose who prefer the "in- 
side" track. 

"Big 3" Upgrades — Part I: Memory 
RAM For All Seasons 

By Sheldon Leemon >> 1 

Buying RAM is no picnic: There are 
different kinds of RAM, uses for RAM, 
and combinations/configurations of RAM 
with oilier expansion devices. I^irl I of a 
special series on upgrading essential 
svstem resources — memory, processing 
power, and storage — will help you find 
the best strategy and products to maxi- 
mize your RAM, 

Screen Tests 

By Linda Barrett Laflamme It 9 

Before you buy it monitor, you should 
consider what your needs are, what dif- 
ferent display technologies have to offer, 
and what trade-offs you're willing to ac- 
cept. We'll help you sort out your options 

and then evaluate 13 Amiga displays to 
choose from. 

ARTICLES 

AW Feature Review: Video 

TOASTER 2.0 By Lou Wallace 44 

NewTek's Video blaster was a revolution- 
ary breakthrough in desktop-video tech- 
nology. Now an ail-new sol (ware upgrade 
has Amiga video buffs Dipping their crou- 
tons in sheer digital delight. 



COLUMNS 

Chief Concerns By Doug Barney . . . 

AW had some visitors recently, and in the 
wiike of their departure, the editor got to 

thinking about what direction ihe Amiga 
market might be moving in next. 




As our cover (inset, above) may suggest to imagi- 
native sri-ft types, this month's theme could be 
dubbed "Close Encounters of the Hardware 
Kind. " We want to help you push it 'Imtexvr 
A miga model you use to incorporate new-found 
flower to achieve any task you desire. That's why 
we're covering every facet of internal A50Q ex- 
pansion, everything you ever wanted to Itnoic 
about RAM upgrades, and a whole anay of dis- 
play possibilities to suit every application. So, get 
ready to sink your teeth into some heavy metal. 



Accent on Graphics 

By Joel Hagen ,) i 

This month Joel shows you why animat- 
ing with Deluxe Paint IV is a whole lot 
easier — and more fun. Make way for 
"Light Table" animation! 

VIDEO SUITE By Paulo de Andrade . . 54 

Learn how to use a sync generator to 
create a "house sync" that will ensure 
proper timing ol all the components in 
your video system. 

DEPARTMENTS 

Overscan 8 

Find out what's happening in the news, 
new products, and on the nets — from all 
over the Amiga community every month 
right here. 

Help Key 14 

If you've goi a technical glitch, a system 
hitch, or an)' related itch — don't bitch. 
Send Lou your grief and get fast relief! 



AW Product Information ... 1 02 

To contact the developers or vendors of 
products mentioned in this issue of 
AmigaWorld, consult our all-in-one "Man- 
ufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list. 

The Last Word 104 

We read the readers and put your feed- 
back on ibis page even' mouth. 

REVIEWS 

SUPERJAM! (Blue Ribbon) 16 

One of the more exciting and innovative 
music programs to come down the 
Amiga "pike in quite a while. 

Wordsworth (Digital infi) 20 

Graphics-oriented word processor with 

lots of accessories. 

RAYDANCE (Radiance) 24 

Highly programmable script-based 3-D 
rendering and animation. 

AdIDE and AdSI'EEDIDE (ICD). . . 78 
Hard-disk controller/drive-plus-accelera- 
tor combos for internal A500 expansion. 

GAMES 

CRIB NOTES By Peter Olafson 82 

This mouth AWs top tipster lakes on 
the formidable Elvira in a cybernetic bat- 
tle of the sexes. 

The Adventures of Willy 
Beamish (Dynamix) 82 

Highly entertaining adventure with wee 
Willie features superb animation. 

Populous II (Bullfrog/ 

Electronic Arts) 84 

The sequel, "Trials of the Olympic 
Gods," may be even better than the 
original! 

ELF (Ocean / Electronic Arts) 87 

Fine medieval-fantasy platform game. 

Bo Jackson Baseball (Data East) 
and MicroLeague Baseball: 
The Manager's Challenge 

(MicroLeague Sports) 92 

"Bo"defmilelv knows action, while "Chal- 
lenge" stresses strategy "Earl Weaver" style. 



COVER PHOTOGRAPH 1W ED [UDICE 



\migaWorld J 



THE FINAL WORD IN 

RAM EXPANSION 

FOR THEA2000 



The best things come 
in small packages! 
The smallest and t 
most compact jtm 

8MB RAM #w3fe£>f 

Expansion M^ JV 

board for the 1 ^^C^ 
A2000. ■^C 

Once again ^i^few^W*, 
GVP proves JBSS^-^hJ 
to be the M 
technology/ 
leader. 




2 MB of 

factory installed 
memory. 

SIMM sockets for up to 6MB user 
installed memory modules. (Shown here 
fully populated) 

GVP's VLSI custom chip allows dramatic decrease in 
number of parts required. 

Features: 

• 2MB of factory installed RAM, expandable to 8MB. 

V All memory is fully Auto-Configured. 

V Also supports a 6MB configuration for maximum memory 
utilization for Commodore's A2088/2286 "bndgeboard" users. 

/ Uses easy-to-install, industry standard, SIMM memory 
modules. No more bent pins or incorrectly inserted DRAM 
chips! 

• GVP's state-of-the-art VLSI technology has reduced an 8MB 
RAM expansion board to a "half-card"! Lower parts count 
also means highest possible reliability and life expectancy. 



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600 Clark Avenue, King of Prussia, PA 19406 

For more information or your nearest GVP 
dealer, call today. Dealer inquiries welcome. 
Tel. (215) 337-8770 • FAX (215) 337-9922 

Amiga Is a registered trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. 
Dealers Circle 25 on Reader Service card. Consumers Circle 22 on Reader Service card. 



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Douglas Barney, Editor-in-Chief 

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Swain Pratt, Managing Editor 

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LOUIS R. WALLACE, Senior Editor. Technology 

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Gene Brawn, Joel Hagen, David T. McClellan, 

Peter Ol-AFSON, Contributing Editors 
HOWARD G. HaPI', Art Director 

Laura Johnson, Assistant Art Director 
Ann Dillon, Designer 

DEBRA A. DAV1ES, Production Supervisor 

Alana KORDA, Manufacturing Manager 

Michael McGoldrick, Advertising Director 

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• Complete Hercules™, CGA, EGA/VGA 
|monochrome| and T3100 video emulations. 
MS-DOS applications can use the ASOO's™' 
built-in parallel and serial ports transparently. 

• Use the ASOO's floppy drive|s) to read/write 
MS-DOS floppies. 

• Let's your A500 run MS-DOS and 




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• Socket for optional 80C287 (CMOS] Floating 
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PLUS, your Series II A500-HD8+ matches your 
Amiga"' 500's good looks hne-for-line and 
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CHIEF CONCERNS 

Amiga users are in the drivers seat and looking to devel- 
opers to give them new and more powerful tools. 



AT SEVEN O'CLOCK on a Breezing 
New Hampshire morning, a crew of 

five from deal Valley Products arrived 
at the vast and well-lit . ImigaWorJd 
offices. Within minutes they comman- 
deered our large conference room, 
making it look like a full-scale comput- 
er show was about to open. 

By nine am, they had hauled in some 
two dozen products and set up full 
demos of a good handful. "Iliey had 
even down in Ad Wisman, a talented 
programme!" from Holland, who held 
his long red beard together with a 
band ol solder. All light! All we had to 
do was buy lunch and sit comfortably 
for about six hours while the demos 
and speeches ran on. 

The GVPers made this trek because 
AmigaWorhl is read by over 100,000 
potential buyers. They wanted to bowl 
us over with the lull force of their 
product line. After all. there's consider- 
able wampum al slake 1 . There were also 
unconfirmed reports that company VP 
Gregg Garnick wanted to ski. 

Don't get me wrong. I was plenty 
interested in the products. After all. 
they do handy things tike make the 
Amiga faster and more versatile. But I 
was distracted quite a bit of the time in 
contemplating die overall market, and 
everything the guys from GV1* said or 
did confirmed the idea that the compa- 
ny is really a microcosm, a big micro- 
cosm, of the US market. 

Let me explain. A lew weeks before 
ihev came. I gol a call from a reporter 
on a Philadelphia business magazine 
who was doing a piece on ( AT. Like 
any good reporter, he asked tough 
questions about their future, and spe- 
citicallv whether their being whollv 
dependent on the Amiga created risk. 
What if sales of the machine dried up? 
Wouldn't CAT be sucking the prover- 
bial canal water along with every other 
vendor? 



I thought about it a while, since I 
generally like to give honest answers but 
don't want to be embarrassed by saying 
something stupid in print (this column, 
of course, being the exception). 

"No," I said. "1 don't think GVP's 
health is really that dependent upon 
sales of the Amiga." 

"Huh?" 

I went on to explain that this market 
is plumb unique. The users are more 
or less in charge, and they are driving 
the machine into more and more ad- 
vanced and spc< iali/.cd uses. 1 don't 
mean to insult you if you play games or 
use productivity software. Most of us 
do. and the lack of commitment to 
general-purpose Amiga users is a 
crime. Instead. I'm talking about the 
market's general direction. 

I would guess that a large percentage 
ol Amigas sold in the US go to people 
who already have an Amiga (I think 
Lou Wallace alone has hall a do/en), 
use it seriously, and are looking for a 
more powerful machine to do graphics. 
video, animation, multimedia, music, 
or what have you. 

What all this means is that most 
people with Amigas are not giving 
them up. They have loo much invested 
in hardware, software, and learning to 
switch, even if something else could do 
the job. Phvsicists call this inertia. To 
me, it's just smart thinking. 

So two types of companies clean up 
in a market with such inertia. One 
makes leading-edge products, stuff that 
jusi hasn't ever been available. The 
other type provides solid products to 
improve your system: hard drives, 
accelerators, and the like. If you can do 
both, vou're golden. 

It's kind of like owning a car. You can 
have the greatest roadster in the world, 
but if you can't get a nutlllcr. hot tires, 
or a bigger carburetor, you'll trade ii in 
for the tiexl best thing. Kven a slinking 
and wheezing day-old Yugo is better 
than a car with no parts. 

(AT like some of the other hardware 
sharpies, is selling an awful lot of up- 



grade products. That tells us exactly 
what is happening in the Amiga mar- 
ket. People treasure their machines and 
like to soup 'cm up. 

We need this steactv, reliable supply 
of performance replacement and up- 
grade components, as well as the well- 
rcgarded stream ol products that fur- 
ther push technology. These batches of 
silicon let us know that our machines 
are sound and the capabilities growing. 
Nice little confidence booster, eh? 

And what exactly did CAT show? 
Look for details in future issues, bin 
here are the highlights. First. ex-Com- 
modore engineer Jell' Boyer showed 
how they revamped the existing line of 
accelerators and cranked out a few 
brand-new ones. The fastest, I'd guess, 
is the G-Force 68040 board, into which 
you can plug faster processors. 

That's nice enough, but the really 
exciting accelerator is the A530. With 
this, you have an A500 that is not onlv 
faster than a 3000 (soon to be old hat), 
but has up to 8MB of RAM, a hard 
drive, and a PC emulator, all within 
one expansion box. Hot dang! 

PhonePak. a unique fax/answering 
maehine/voicc-mail device is high on 
their list. They think this will sell Ami- 
gas outside of our traditional markets. 

For the [V24, they showed an RGB 
splitter/encoder/decoder for switching 
between video and computer sources, 
the starting point for some swell transi- 
tions. To wrap up the session, Dutch 
programmer/professor Wisman showed 
his photographic theory-based, image 
processing package for the IV24. 

By nightfall, the conference room 
was cleared of debris, and I walked 
to my car thinking about one word: 
inertia. ■ 




(,/,,!„■ 1992 




Our new 
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at a clock speed of up to 50Mhz), 4 to 
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lust look what you get from 
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• 50Mhz 68030 or 40Mhz 6SEC030 
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A1000 will out-perform even the latest 
A3000 systems. 

• 50Mhz or 40Mhz 6S8K2 FPU, math pro- 
cessor. 

• 4MB of high performance, 60ns, 32- 
bit wide RAM expansion. User up- 
gradeable to 16MB with easy-to-install 
4MB SIMM modules. 

• High Performance, Auto-booting, 
DMA SCSI controller which can DMA 
directly to/from the full 16MB range of 
32-bit wide RAM — just like the A3000! 

• SCSI connectors for connecting both 
internal and external SCSI peripherals. 

• Hardware support for mapping the 
A2000 Kickstart ROM into the high- 
speed 32-bit wide on-board RAM. It's 
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• Icon-based, Software Switchable, 
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OVERSCAN 

News, A/ew Products and /Vefwor^s 
Two if by CeBIT: German Show Sees Launch of Amiga 600 Pair 



HANNOVER, GERMANY— Every 
March, the world's largest computer show 
invades Hannover, Germany. This year, 
over 600,000 people descended upon 
the show's 21 exhibition halls in just 
eight days. 

The largest crowds collected around 
Commodore's three booths, which repre- 
sented the company's three separate ac- 
tivities in Europe. To impress the mostly 
PC-oriented CeBIT attendees and im- 
prove its position as Germany's second 
largest seller of IBM clones, Commodore 
focused on its MS-DOS machines. The 
main booth was dominated by PCs — 
from 486 EISA machines to notebooks. 
In a press conference, Chairman Irving 
Gould announced the opening of new 
sales offices in eastern Europe, starting 
with Warsaw, Poland, and stated that 
Amiga sales increased 21% in the last 
quarter of 1991. 



Power Full 

Here in the world's largest Amiga mar- 
ket, there was greater interest in the sec- 
ond booth, which showcased multimedia 
applications on Amiga 3000s and 
30001s. The newest ray-tracing software 
versions showed up, as clid a PAL 24-bit 
Ifamebulfer, an Amiga CAD system, the 
Scala presentation system (Digital Vision 
A/S), and Digital Creations' DCTV. East 
German newcomer SEK'D presented a 
complete Amiga sound system — includ- 
ing K-, 12-, and 16-bit sampling, MIDI 
sequencing, and sound expansion all in 
one package — with ARexx support and 
free editing possibilities. 

On a huge video wall, CBM presented 
its experimental Amiga-based multime- 
dia application. Called Cyberama. it is a 
blue-box system in which a person in 
bout ol a video camera activates comput- 
er gadgets and moves "objects" by point- 



ing at them. The computer analyzes the 
movements and handles collisions with 
computer images. In the final video pic- 
ture, the person appears genlocked with 
the computer graphics. 

Also in this booth was CUTV, now pre- 
sented as a complete Amiga system. 
Called Amiga-CDTV, the package in- 
cludes a keyboard, floppy and hard 
drives, a modem, and a mouse, in addi- 
tion to a CDTV. With this and the A570 
CD drive for the Amiga 500, Com- 
modore hopes to establish a new family 
of multimedia home computers. 

500 Minus Expandability 
Equals... The New 600! 

Commodore's third booth' — the home- 
computer booth — hosted the first official 
showing of the new 2.04-based Amiga 
600 and 600HD (the latter with a 20MB 
(jmthiut'd on p. 12. 



Pick Up the Pace 

Great Valley Products (GVP) has recently come up with three new ways to 
put you right in the fast lane. 

Following in the footsteps of GVP's Series II A500-HD8+ subsystem, the A530 
Combo3CM0 features a 40-MHz 68030 accelerator; slots for up to 8MB of 60- 
nanosecond (ns), 32-bit RAM; a floating-point-unit socket; and the choice of a 52, 
105, or 240MB built-in SCSI hard drive. Sweetening the deal is a miniature slot that 
accommodates the GVP/PC286 (S425). This PC/AT emulator provides a 16-MHz 
286 processor, 51 2K of RAM, a socket for an 80C287 FPU, and various video em- 
ulation modes: Hercules, CGA, monochrome EGA/VGA, and T31 00. (Note that MS- 
DOS is not included.) 

A 28-MHz 68040 accelerator (with an on-chip MMU and FPU) for the A3000 or 
A3000T, the G-Force 040 board supplies two megs of 40ns, 32-bit RAM and can sup- 
port up to six more. For increased performance, you can copy and transparently map 
the 2.0 Kickstart ROM into G-Force's memory. With 2MB, the board is S2799; an ad- 
ditional 4MB sets you back S899 more. 

Now available in 25-, 40-, and 50-MHz versions, the G-Force 68030 Combo for 
the A2QQ0 includes a 68882 FPU, 60ns, 32-bit RAM, and a SCSI controller (with its 
own 14-MHz controller chip). While the 25-MHz board comes with 1 MB of RAM 
(expandable to 13MB), the 40- and 50-MHz boards each come with 4MB and hold 
up to 16MB. In addition, GVP supplies a 120 or 240MB Quantum drive with the 
40-MHz board and offers a 240MB drive with the 50-MHz board. For complete pric- 
ing, contact GVP (RS# 107.) 




Fore! 

Can't afford country-club fees? Tee off 
with Links ($59.95), the HAM-mode 
golf game from Access Software. Links 
puts you on the greens of such champi- 
onship courses as San Diego's Torrey 
Pines (additional course disks are in the 
works). While you won't need a member- 
ship card to play, you will need 1MB of 
memory and a hard tli.sk. (RS# 104.) 



To locate the vendors of the products mentioned, see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 102. 



8 June 1992 



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New "interrogator, " retrieves device information from 
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Capable of complete, subdirectory-only, or selected-files 
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Improved wild card and pattern matching, for fast and 
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features, and proven reliability. And a 
new "3-D" user interface puts these 
powerful capabilities at your finger tips. 
With features like these, it is no wonder 
that Quarterback is the best selling 
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Video Takes 

You can't get good results from 
badly tuned equipment, so Vidia of- 
fers the Video Calibration Set 

($49.95). A collection of 41 IFF im- 
ages, the set turns a genlock- 
equipped Amiga into a test-pattern 
generator for composite or RGB 
monitors. The various IFFs test for 
color, brightness and contrast, elec- 
tron-beam convergence, phosphor 
burn, and interlace flicker, as well as 
spatial, color, and gray-scale linearity. 
(The supplied presentation software 
displays the images at the click of a 
mouse.) The package also includes 
three printed test patterns for check- 
ing a video camera's interlace coher- 




Ready set Educator Set! 

ence, local and overall aspect ratio, 
contrast, and detail. (RS# 101.) 

With your camera and monitors 
tweaked to perfection, you're ready to 



work. To set your video's mood, CeV 
Designs offers a selection of backdrops 
in the Educator Set (539,95), which 
comprises Volume 6: The Educator 
V2.0— World Maps; Volume 11: The 
Reporter — School Sports; and Volume 
12: The Producer. The four-disk Volume 
6 contains topographically textured 
maps of the US, individual states, and 
various countries. The two disks of Vol- 
ume 11 hold hi-res scenes of school 
sports, school environment, and grad- 
uation, while the political disk from Vol- 
ume 12 houses screens with govern- 
mental and historical political images. 
(RS# 102.) 
Combine computer graphics and 




ON-LINE 

SCAN 



By Tim Walsh 



A computer topic made head- 
lines in the news early this 
March, placing an overdue 
wake-np call to the entire com- 
puter industry. "Computer ex- 
perts" came out of the walls, un- 
wittingly infusing higher doses 
of anxiety into panic-stricken PC 
owners by making dire predic- 
tions on prime-time TV. Sales of 
antivirus programs soared, and 
many PC owners dared not turn 
on their computers that fateful 
day of March 6. .Although cover- 
age of Michelangelo may have 
seemed excessive, the resulting 
awareness allowed many people 
to escape damage. 

At the risk of being labeled a 
"computer expert," I admit that 
several people asked me how to 
avoid Michaelangelo. I assured 
them that the virus would strike 
only MS-DOS compatibles, and 
that their computers should be 
fine as long as they had an up- 
to-date memory-resident virus 
checker in place. 

The scare gave Amiga users 
pause. After all. whether you 
own an Amiga, Mac or PC, or 
any combination thereof, we're 
singing in the same choir when 
it comes to computer viruses 
and the precautions needed to 
be sale from them. 

Online Solutions 
Partiallv because the networks 



are such a timely source of files, 
they are the most valuable re- 
source on the planet for anti- 
virus utilities. In the days be lore 
Michelangelo struck, a television 
report noted I hat CompuServe 
was receiving a record number of 
calls from folks searching for 
virus checkers. 

Scanning the nets for these 
programs is confusing because 
of the wide selection. For years I 
have been a strong supporter of 
Steve Tibbetl's YiiiisN (now in 
version 4.01). You can find var- 
ious revisions of it on every ma- 
jor net bv searching on the key- 
word VLRUSX. 

In addition, here is a sam- 
pling of heavily downloaded 
files from each net that I found 
to be exceptional virus catchers: 

BIX: Zerovirus version 111 
(zvirusiii.lzh) resides within the 
Amiga.user area. With its wild 
graphic interface, a "braiuule.*" 
and a facility for checking mem- 
ory by address. Jonathan Pot- 
ter's program uses only 1 K of 
chip RAM. 

CompuServe: Check out 
BIG312.LZH in the AmigaTech 
area. library 1 1. The latest revi- 
sion of Erwin van Bret-men's 
BigBmther is a "virus-infeclion 
detection" program thai pre- 
vents programs from starting a 
virus in memory. BigBrother 
also can start a new shell, han- 



dle scripts, and permit viewing 

and installation of bootblocks. 

GEnie: File #14-1 06 in Amiga 
library 4 is VIRUSZ212.LHA, 
the latest version of Virus/, by 
Georg Hoermann, Version 2.21 
claims the ability lo detect over 
I4(> bootblork viruses. 

Portal: If download counts are 
reliable indicators, the highly 
functional Vu*us_Checker (i.01 
(Amiga Zone Library 2!), file 12. 
VCHKR601XZH) probably en- 
joys more widespread use than 
any oilier Amiga virus-detection 
program at this time. Installing 
|olm Veldthuis' acclaimed pro- 
gram under AmigaDOS 2.04 re- 
quires nothing more than drop- 
ping ii into your WBStartup 
drawer. 

Safety in Numbers 

Mam of the people who devel- 
op virus combantants belong to 
the nonprofit organization Safe 
Hex International, The Den- 
mark-based group was estab- 
lished by Amiga user and virus 
researcher F.rik Loevendaht 
Soerensen. Now, with 14 centers 
worldwide (including one in 
Florida). Sill serves all comput- 
er platforms. The group claims 
the dubious honor of having 
amassed the world's largest col- 
lection of viruses (over 275), 
which it analyzes to update its 
arsenal. Sill wants to help re- 



cover the losses of people who 
are out substantial sums because 
of viruses, even offering a 
$1000 reward for information 
leading to the conviction of 
virus programmers. 

Yon can gel Safe Hex's latest 
version off he New SuperKillers 
from the IS Regional Virus 
Center — either by downloading 
it from the BBS (813/849-4034) 
or by sending S3 per disk (a 12- 
disk subscription is $35) lo PO 
Box 724. Port Richey, PL 34673. 

You can never be completely 
safe from viruses, for new ones 
are continually being developed 
and old ones reworked. Let's 
give hearty thanks, though, to 
the people who contribute to 
protecting us all. 

Here are the addresses and 
telephone numbers of the net- 
works mentioned above: 

BIX 

General Vldeotexi Corp, 

lU.'iO Massathuseiis Ave. 

Cambridge, MA 02 US 

800/227-2983 
f>l 7 354-4137 

CompuServe 

PO Box 20212 
Columlms. Oil 13220 
614/457-0802 
800/848-8199 

GEnie 

101 North Washington St. 
Rockville. MD 20850 
800/638-9636 

I'orial Coiumuiiii ations 
20863 Stevens Creek Blvd. 

Suite #200 
Cupertino, CA. 95014 
408/973-9111 



10 June 1992 




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Add effects like reverb and echo, run 
sounds backward, alter wave forms, 
cut and paste sound segments, create 
loops, eliminate pops and scratches. 

► Compose easily using the DSS 
4-track sequencer and your Amiga or 
MIDI keyboard. Draw from up to 31 
instruments at a time, in up to four 
octaves with 8 different variable 
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direct interface with the sound editor. 

DSS Stretches the outer limits or 8-bit 
sound 

• Create your own 4-track, self -play- 
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• Make soundtracks for home video, 
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• Analyze voice patterns and stereo 
separation. 

• Analyze graphic 
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• Remove "pops" from 
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• Create custom instruments and 
sound effects by collecting and/or 
modifying pre-recorded instruments, 
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• Save your sound and music to disk 
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Check out these unparalleled features 

V AmigaDOS 2.0 compatible; 
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v 1 Multi-tasking operation. 

V 68020 and 68030 compatible. 

V Comprehensive tutorial manual 
helps even beginners get started right 
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v' Intuition-based graphic interface 
makes operation easy. 

V MIDI-in capability. 

V Direct interface between 
sequencer and editor. 

V Hold 31 sound samples in memory 
at once - all shown on screen so they 
are easy to manipulate. 

V Effects and processing capabilities 
include echo, niix, filter, re-sample, 
sound data inversion, playing sounds 
backwards, loops, fade-in/fade-out 
and more. 

V Manipulate sound samples 
in real time, as you listen. 

V Create sampled instruments 
with 1, 3 and 5 octaves. 

v H1FI recording for highest quality 
playback. 

v' Controls for faster/slower playback 
and filtering high frequencies during 
playback. 

V Load and save samples, songs and 
instruments in multiple formats. 

v' Multiple 
effects for 
each note. 

</ Stereo and 
monophonic 

operation. Also convert mono to 

stereo or separate stereo. 

v 1 Auto-playing music modules. 





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V Real-time oscilloscope and 
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v" Real-time reverberation. 

v" Graphic editing of wave forms 

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controls for position, frequency and 

amplitude. 

*/ Draw sound waves freehand using 

the mouse. 

V Direct editing of individual sample 
numeric values. 

v" Maximum recording speed of 
51,000 samples/second (38,908 
samples/second in stereo]. 

V Savable Preference settings. 

V Saves in IFF, SONLX or RAW 
formats. 

V Compatible with SoundTracker, 
NoiseTracker and SoundFX modules. 




[NJ 




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V E R S C A \ 



video — or two video sources — with 
ChromaKey+ (MicroSearch , $395). 
New to this version of the chromakeyer 
are a higher video bandwidth, video fil- 



ter, and separate chroma input for clean- 
er edges. By using the linear-key signal, 
you can control ChromaKey+ from the 
Video Toaster's interface. (RS# 103.) 



Two if by CeBIT, from p. 8. 
hard drive). The machines look similar 
to A500s, but, lacking a numeric kevpad, 
are over five inches shorter. According to 
unofficial sources, these releases are 
planned as long-term replacements for 
the Amiga 500. Officially, Commodore 
did not comment on this "plan." But at- 
tendees had plenty of comments, rang- 
ing from "ugly" to "nice game machine" 
to "great." (Editor's note: As of press lime, 
there is no definite release dak for America. 
We hear that FCC approval is pending.) 

The machine incorporates SMD (Sur- 
face Mounted Device) technology, 
meaning that only its ROM is replace- 
able. This design divided Amiga hard- 
ware manufacturers into two groups: 
Those fearing that the approaches used 
for A500 boards will not work with the 
new machine, and those who got excited 
thinking of the money they could make 
repairing a machine that disallows mod- 
ification al home, German manufacturer 
Golem Computers announced the first 
68030 board for the Amiga 600. 

Also on the stand was the Amiga's pre- 
decessor, the best-selling C-64. Before you 
laugh, be aware that with the opening of 
the iron curtain, litis machine is more pop- 
ular today than ever before. Commodore 
sold more than 800,000 in 1 991 (die high- 
est number ever in one year), with most 
going to East European countries. 

Joining these machines in the home- 
computer booth was Scala 500. This 
lower-priced version, designed for 
A500 users, lacks an ANIM player. 
Electronic Arts got an unexpected re- 
sponse from its DeluxePaint IV demo 



when people asked for a version to 
work with advanced processors. 

Developer/distributor FSE showed a 
hard drive and a new 50-Mhz 68030 ac- 
celerator by Golem, and it announced a 
RAM expander for the A600, as well as 
a 16-bit sound sampler for l he A2000 
and A3000. Casio presented an Amiga 
interface for its portable Databank ma- 
chines, and Philips offered a CD-pro- 
duction system for under SI 0,000 that 
can write anv CD format, including 
CDTV and audio CD. 

Still, surrounded by PC, UNIX, and 
workstation companies, Amiga users felt 
somewhat lost at CeBIT. It was hard to 
find Amiga companies among the thou- 
sands of exhibitors, and no company 
showed only Amiga products. 

No Respect 

The so-called "Amiga freaks" do not im- 
prove the Amiga's image. They run 
around al fail's by the hundreds, exchang- 
ing pirated software, phone numbers, and 
addresses. Their annual CeBIT opening- 
day procedure is to cover the wall next to 
Commodore's stand with stickers, graffiti, 
and addresses of "spreaders." Thai night, 
Commodore has the wall repainted, and 
from then on guards stand watch lo pre- 
vent a repeat performance. 

This is not the kind of behavior thai 
gets the Amiga the recognition it de- 
serves. But neither is Commodore's em- 
phasis on PCs. While other companies 
proudly announce initial steps into mul- 
timedia, the first and true multimedia 
machine is being overlooked. 

— Alexander Horn 



Simplified Intuition 

If you find Intuition programming time-consuming and confusing, consider 
STSLib \SciTech Software, £20) and Instinct (Advanced Thinkware Designs, 

$249.95). STSLib promises simple access to 2.0-look menus and 3-D gadgets un- 
der AmigaDOS 2.0 and 1.3. An alternative to gadtools. library, STSLib offers rou- 
tines for Boolean, text, cycle, check-button, and radio-button gadgets, menu 
building, window and requester creation, IntuiText structures, pen selection, 
drawing, and more. (RS# 113.) 

Instinct is a collection of object-oriented libraries designed to simplify Intuition 
programming and provide user-interface primitives that exceed those of Intuition. 
For example, field objects provide standard gadgets, plus such bonuses as 
scrolling lists, pop-up fields, subforms, matrix fields, and variable-length, multi- 
line text. Trigger objects allow user actions to launch events: A menu selection 
could summon a requester, or a gadget click could open a window. Image objects 
support IFF-ILBM data so you can use brushes to define images. Requiring Ami- 
gaDOS 2.0, Instinct promises results that comply fully with Commodore's Amiga 
User Interface Style Guide. (RS# 114.) 




Let there be the Light Corridor! 

Isn't That Spacial! 

The eight-member crew of the space 
station Pegasus is being killed one by 
one in Murders in Space (Titus). To 
solve this mystery (and preserve your 
own life), you must fly a space shuttle, 
conduct complex medical experi- 
ments, explore outside the space sta- 
tion, and, of course, master the zero- 
gravity environment. 

Titus' 3-D puzzle The Light Corridor 
is a different space challenge. Here, 
you travel at the speed of light, ensur- 
ing the safe passage of chosen objects 
through the tunnels of time. (RS# 1 05.) 



Broadcast Boost 

Caligari Broadcast 2.1 {Octree Soft- 
ware, $ 199:")) ups the ante in 3-D model- 
ing. This lastest version of the ray tracer 
includes a free-form deformation mod- 
ule; revamped point-editing, slice, sweep, 
and mirror functions; quaternion-based 
spline animations: an unlimited number 
of lights; and a 32-bit (eight-bit alpha) 
tenderer with texture mapping, environ- 
ment mapping, shadows, four-level an- 
tialiasing, and transparency, Gouraud, 
Phong, metal, and environment shading. 

For input and output, you can choose 
among VideoScape, LightWave, and 
Sculpt object formats. Broadcast 2. 1 also 
supports single-frame controllers and the 
Targa+A'isia, Impact Vision 24, Harle- 
quin, DCriV, and IIAM-E frame buffers. 
For slide making, resolutions of up to 
8000x8000 pixels are at your disposal. 

Because this type of 3-D power re- 
quires intense calculation, the program 
is optimized to run on 68030 and 68040 
accelerators with floating-point units. 
(RS# 109.) 



Overscan is compiled by Barbara Gefvert, 
Linda Lsflamme and Tim Walsh. Send your 
news, new products, and network informa- 
tion to Overscan, Amiga World Editorial, 80 
Elm St., Peterborough, NH 03458. ■ 



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HELP KEY 



Lou deals with creating a RAM disk, explains what fatter 
Agnus does to RAM, and recommends an adapter. 



Agnus Chip Effects 

Q: On my A500 I have one megabyte of 
RAM anil the fatter Agnus chip. The wny I 
understand it is that I now have essentially 
two megabytes of RAM (one meg of chip 
RAM and one meg of fast RIM). Now, if 
that is coned, then xvln does Diskmaster say 
I have only 800K of RAM free? For that 
matter, it says I have SOOKofchip RAM 
and no fast RAM! What's going on here? 

R. Nadon 
Canada 

A: Diskmaster is correct — thai is all the 
RAM you have. When you had the new 
Agnus installed, this increased your 
chip RAM from 512K to one megabyte. 
The extra 5 1 2K of new chip RAM was 
originally your 5 1 2K of fast RAM. Now 
you have one megabyte of chip RAM, 
bin no fast memory. Keep in mind that 
the Agnus merely allows more chip 
memory; it doesn't have any RAM of its 
own. In order to have fast RAM. you 
will now have to add some extra expan- 
sion memory. 



GVP's VIU Adapter 

Q: / mcen&y bought the GVP IV24 video 
card, it's great, bat I really need a good 
composite-lo-RGB adapter so I can make 
use of some of the neat features like the PIP 
(picture in picture) option. Where can I 
find one? 

L, Williams 
New York, New York 

A: You're in luck! Great Valley Products 
recently visited the AntigaWorld offices 
and showed us some neat new products 
for the IV24 (among other interesting 
things). One was a video input/output 
box for the IV24 called the VIU (Video 
Interface Unit), which will do exactly 
fchat you need, and which will hence- 
forth be included with every IY24 
that's sold. Best of all, GVP plans on 
giving one to ever)' registered IY24 
owner who has already bought the 



By Louis R. Wallace 

IV24 but didn't get the VIU. So if you 
haven't already sent in that IV24 regis- 
tration card, do it now! According to 
GVP, all you then need do is contact 
the dealer from whom you bought the 
IV24, and they will arrange to send you 
your new VIU. 



RAM Disk Creation 

Q: Help! I am tiying to create a recover- 
able RAM disk for mf A 500, I am using 
AmigaDOS 2.04, and I have three mega- 
bytes of RAM. I have tried severed things, 
but just can't get it to work. Can you help? 

J. Turner 
Tampa, Florida 

A: The recoverable RAM disk, or RAD: 
device is quite easy to create and use. 
Just add the following lines (if they arc 
not there already) to your mountlist. 
(The mountlist is found in your SYS: 
UFA'S drawer, and can be edited with 
an;' text editor that can load and save 
ASCII. Remember, if you use vour 
word processor, make sure it saves the 
file back as text only!) These lines will 
create a mountlist entry for a recover- 
able RAM disk that has the storage 
capacity of a standard floppy disk. 

/* This is an example of a mountlist entry for 
using the recoverable RAM disk. You can alter 

the amount of memory you wish to devote to it 
by changing the HighCyl value.*/ 

RAD: 

Device = RAMdrive.device 
Unit = 
Flags = o 
Surfaces = 2 
BlocksPerTrack = 11 
Reserved = 2 
Interleave = 
LowCyl = 
HighCyl = 79 
Buffers = 5 
BufMemType = 1 

Once you have added these lines to 
vour mountlist, you should then edit 



your startup-sequence to check for die 
existence of RAD: and install it if it isn't 
already present. If RAD: is present, your 
startup-sequence should do nothing, 
but if it isn't already present, it should 
be mounted, formatted and have the 
appropriate files copied to it. Here is an 
example for your startup-sequence. 

mount rad: 

if not exists rad:trashcan 

echo "Formatting RAD:..." 

run >nil: sys:system/format drive RAD: name 
Ram bo 

echo "Now copying DFO to RAD..." 

copy DFO: to RAD: all quiet 

echo "RAD Ready!" 
endif 

This sequence does a couple of inter- 
esting things. First, it mounts l be RAD 
disk. (On subsequent reboots, litis line 
will generate a message thai RAD 
already exists.) Then it checks for the 
existence of the Trashcan directory in 
RAD. If that isn't found, it assumes this 
is the initial powemp of the system. It 
then quietly formats the RAD disk, 
(which creates the Trashcan drawer). 
Next, it copies over all the contents of 
DFO: to the recoverable RAM disk, 
using the regular file-copy command. 
At this point, you will have a RAM disk 
whose contents will survive a warm 
reboot of the machine. 

You can modify this in many' ways. For 
example, if you don't want all of DFO: 
copied, just delete that line and add 
specific copy statements to do the liles 
and directories you need. Or, you could 
change the source directory from DFO: 
to another drive like DF1 : or DF2:. 
Keep in mind that the mountlist entry 
above creates a RAM disk the same size 
as a regular floppy, and it will fill up and 
generate a "disk full" message il you in 
to put too much into it. If you need 
more room, increase the value for High- 
Cyl in the mountlist. However, using a 
recoverable RAM disk the same si/.e as a 
floppy has advantages, such as the abili- 
ty to do a disk cop)- between it and real 
floppv drives. ■ 



1-1 June 1992 




HE ONLY 
WMhz '286 IBM PC/AT 
EMULATOR THAT WORKS. 
WITH BOTH 
THEA500AND 
THEA2000 



If you want your Amiga 500, 500+ or 2000 to be able to run 
software programs that were originally written for the IBM PC, 
GVP and Vortex have the perfect solution — the ATonce-Plus PC/AT 
emulator board. 



But before you buy any emulator here 
are a few key facts you should know . . . 

► FACT: ATonce-PLUS is the only PC 
emulator board with a powerful 16-bit 
80286 CPU running at the blazing 
clockspeed of 16Mhz. 

► FACT: ATonce-PLUS has a Norton 
Speed Index of 16, so you know it's 
amazingly fast at loading, manipulat- 
ing and storing data. 

► FACT: ATonce-PLUS comes with its 
own 512KB of RAM and allows the 
Amiga's memory to be (transparently! 
allocated to MS-DOS applications 
requiring more than 512KB of mem- 
ory. Amiga FAST RAM can even be 
used as extended memory! 

► FACT: ATonce-PLUS can take full ad- 
vantage of the 80286 CPU's protected 
mode and allows MS Windows to run 

standard" mode. 

This is not possible with 
other emulators using 
\ 8-bit wide bus CPU's. 
FACT: ATonce-PLUS 
operates under 
AmigaDOS, so you 
can run AmigaDOS 
and MS-DOS 





applications concurrently! 
FACT: ATonce-PLUS supports 
Hercules, CGA, EGA/VGA (mono 
chrome), AT&T 6300 |640x400| and 
T3100 video emulations. 
FACT: ATonce-PLUS makes 1000's of 
new software programs available to 
Amiga 500, 500+ and 2000 users. 
FACT: ATonce-PLUS allows MS-DOS 
applications to use the Amiga's hard- 
disk, floppy disks, serial port, parallel 
port, mouse, sound and Real-time 
Clock. It even emulates a PC's 
CMOS RAM for system Setup 
parameters! 

FACT: ATonce-PLUS allows the 
Amiga's built-in floppy drives to be 
used to read and write MS-DOS 
compatible floppy disks. 
FACT: ATonce-PLUS has a socket for 
installing an optional 80C287 math 
processor (FPU I for even faster 
number crunching, 
FACT: ATonce-PLUS is compatible 
with MS-DOS V3.2 or later. Also com 
patible with latest versions of DR- 
DOS. NOTE: ATonce-PLUS requires 
the MS-DOS or DR-DOS operating 
system, which is not included. 



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SuperJAM! 

The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks 
A ghost virtuoso. 

By Rick Manasa 

WHETHER YOU'RE A novice or pro- 
fessional, SuperJAM! (The Blue Ribbon 
Soundworks. S 1 49) promises to provide 
you with the tools and means to com- 
pose music in a variety of styles easily 
and creatively. I low? By letting yon 
input chords, keys, tempos, and styles 
and then "filling in the blanks" by 
playing an appropriate pari based on 
the outline von created. It's kind ol like 
telling your life story to a ghost writer 
and having him whip together a stun- 
ning literary masterpiece based on the 
facts vou provided. SuperJAM! is an 
achievement no less remarkable. 

The Warm-Up Act 

The noncopy-protected program comes 
on three disks and is easily installable 
on a hard drive. All the Amiga-specific 
features arc there, embraced in the 
wacky Toon Town interface we've come 
lo expect from Blue Ribbon. Moreover, 
SuperJAM! is <|nite compatible with 
other programs. It integrates smoothly 
with Bars&Pipes Professional, so you 
can add a drum track created with 
SuperJAM! to the rest of the tracks you 
developed in KScV I'm. 

The program has a lullv implement- 
ed ARexx port and will synchronize to 
SMITE via MIDI time code directly or 
through Dr. T"s Phantom synchronizer. 
You can even synchronize your Imag- 
ine- and Real-'lD-crcated animations. 
Finally, vou can save vour creation as a 
SMUS file or standard MIDI file, which 
allows you lo import the work into any 
Amiga sequencer that supports these 
formats (most do by now). 

While SuperJAM! supports 24, 25, 
30, and 30-drop frames per second, 
you can't insert hit points or sync dif- 
ferent passages of music to different 
film or video scenes. Because Bars&- 



Pipes Professional treats SuperJAM! as 
an accessory and imports its files, you 
can take advantage of B&P Pro's time- 
line editing to create a hit list to match 
your video. 

While the program can use the Ami- 
ga's internal sounds and does not 
require any extra hardware to play back 
songs, it also supports MIDI instru- 
ments. You supply the MIDI interface 
and instruments, and SuperJAM! sup- 
plies a set of default syntli setups to 
load, including Roland MT-32, Proteus 
1, and Ensoniq SQ-1. SuperJAM! 
knows how each of these instruments is 
laid out and displays the factory pre- 
sets' names when loading sounds. 

Blue Ribbon recommends that the 
more serious SuperJAM! users employ 
MIDI technology, because of the high- 
er fidelity and reduced stress on the 
processors. While I agree, I wouldn't 
dismiss the company's TurboSound 
Technology until you've heard it (more 
on this later). You may find it adequate 
for your game development, music 
demo, or multimedia work. 

SuperJAM! makes efficient use of the 
menu bar. The menus change with 
each activated window. The Song win- 
dow, lor example, oilers a different set 
of menu items than does the Chords 
window. Ibis keeps the menu bar from 
appearing too formidable to the 
novice, while still maintaining the 
program's capabilities for more experi- 
enced users. 

There arc so many levels to Super- 
JAM!, however, that you can easily get 
lost. 'Io prevent this, the title bar of each 
window displays its parent and complete 
path. If you're not careful, vou can run 
out o I memory in opening windows, 
even with a multimegabyte system. 
That's why having the duplication of 
tools in many windows is so helpful. You 

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don't have to bunt through layers of 
windows to find any tool you might 
need in the current window. 

The easv-to-follow manual is also a 
great help in navigating the program. 
After it describes the installation proce- 
dures, it takes you on a quick walk 
around the SuperJAM! screen and 
conventions, and then jumps into 
music making with a tutorial. The 
tutorial chapter shows you how to 
select and change the style, chords, 
tempo, and key criteria for your music. 
SuperJAM! ships with numerous style 
and chord selections lo choose from, so 
getting started immediately is no prob- 
lem. Manv of the icons are explored 
and explained as well. 

Whether you want to or not, you'll 
learn a bit of music theory and style 
witli SuperJAM!. Rear not; it's relatively 
painless. By the time you're through 
with (be tutorial, you'll have been ex- 
posed to some of the basic ideas of 
SuperJAM! and to many fundamental 
music composition concepts, as well. 

The Headliner 

Once you've learned the basics, it's 
time to meet the band: the drummer, 
bassist, keyboard player, guitarist, 
string section, and lead player, al- 
tbough any player can be assigned any 
instrument. You can set each player's 
volume, octave, and instrument. When 
necessary, you can also select the MIDI 
channel. That there are only six instru- 
ments available may seem a severe 
limitation, but remember that Super- 
JAM! is not a sequencer. As an algorith- 
mic composer, SuperJAMl's primary 
purpose is generating and manipulat- 
ing styles and changes. 

The Section Window allows you to 
set parameters for SuperJAM! to follow 
in its performance. Here you design 
your sections of the song by defining 
such items as the chord and style 
changes within which SuperJAM! will 
improvise. You can turn the program 
loose or take a Snapshot of a perfor- 
mance you particularly like. SuperJAM! 



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repeats a Snapshot verbatim, just like a 
traditional sequencer. 

Also as in a sequencer, you can 
massage any note's time, velocity, or 
duration, and even add and delete 
notes. Defining and entering chords, 
muting portions of the seel ion, adding 
embellishments, and even changing 
the hand are all possible. Finally, yon 
can link your sections into a verse- 
chorus-bridge arrangement in the 
Song window to create your finished 
piece. 

While the chords included in Super- 
JAM! cover a wide range, they are far 
hom complete; hence the Define 
Chords window. Here you create new 
chords by clicking on notes in a one- 
octave keyboard. This is the greatest 
weakness of the window: Many chords 
just don't sound right unless they're 
spread over a few octaves. Clustering 
CEGAB" into one octave may techni- 
cally be a CISth, but Oscar Peterson 
wouldn't play it that way. 

The Back-up Band 

One of the biggest buzzes surround- 
ing SuperJAM! is Blue Ribbon's Tur- 
boSound Technology, which mixes any 
number of instruments and plays the 
mix over one Amiga channel. The 
advantage is that you can have many 
more than the Amiga-standard four 
different instruments playing simulta- 
neously. The disadvantage is that 
TurboSound Technology uses a lot of 
memory. 

Here's how it works: The IFF sound 
formal calls lor one sample per oc- 
tave, leaving it to the Amiga sound 
chip to alter the sample's pitch to 
generate the different notes of the 
octave. Because TurboSound premixes 
the instruments, the Amiga can't shili 
each instrument individually. There- 
fore, TurboSound Technology must 
take a sample for each note, instead of 
for each octave. 

You tan convert your favorite IFF 
samples into TurboSounds with the 
included TurboSound Editor; a full- 



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SuperJAM! turns your inspirations into stylish compositions. 



featured sample editor similar to Audi- 
tion 4 (SimRize Industries) and Audio- 
Master IV (Oxxi). The included Turbo- 
Sound library is so extensive, however, 
that you may never need to look else- 
where for sounds. 

Yet another aspect of TurboSound 
Technology is the TurboSample, a 
snapshot of your entire SuperJAM! 
composition. This is very useful in low- 
memory situations, for once it's creat- 
ed, it requires nothing from your sys- 
tem. What's more, you can play a 
TurboSample directly from disk nsing 
the included stand-alone TurboPlayer. 
You can even pack up to three minutes 
of music on a disk in lo-res mode. All 
this, folks, and ARexx control of Turbo- 
Player, too. 

While TurboSound Technology can't 
compete with even a basic MIDI setup, 
you can't deny the amount of effort 
that's gone into its design and execu- 
tion. Fhe capability and potential of 
SuperJAM! just seem to expand the 
further you get into the program, 

On the MIDI side, you can select 
patches from your favorite synth, set 
the MIDI channel and volume, map 
velocity to volume lor those older 
synths that don't support MIDI con- 
troller #7, set up drum maps, and 
save your configurations to disk, Su- 
perJAM! provides patch lists from 
some popular synths, or you can cre- 
ate your own. 

To help you produce results worth 
listening to with these tools, three 
chapters in the manual are solely de- 
voted to style considerations, and 
rightly so. The use and control of style 
may be the key element to SuperJAM!. 



The program conies with a wide variety 
of styles — Rock, Hip Hop, Waltzes, 
New Orleans Jazz, Samba, and Motown 
(my favorite) among others — that you 
can edit to suit your tastes or use right 
out of the box. (Pop/Rock, Classical, 
and Cutting Edge style disks are avail- 
able from Blue Ribbon for S24.95 
each, as well.) 

The style chapters deal with a brief 
introduction to the elements of style, 
the process of analyzing a selected style 
to find out what makes it tick, and, 
finally, the development of your own 
style. Some of the concepts are in- 
volved, but they are clearly explained. 
Blue Ribbon is to be commended for 
removing the mystery behind the pro- 
cess and giving the user the tools, 
insight and instruction needed to be 
creative on his own. 

Back to the Studio 

So how can SuperJAM! be improved? 
Lots of ways. First of all, give it an 
Undo Last Action key; it's too easy to 
do destructive editing without this type 
of safety net. Also, an auto-backup 
function would help you stay focused 
on the creative process. And the manu- 
al should mention that there arc hot 
keys for mam 1 functions in SuperJAM! 
Currently, you have to stumble on 
these yourself. Further, the ability to 
export in SMUS or MIDI files is great, 
bul il would be even better if you could 
import patterns and sequences into 
SuperJAM! ihai you've created in your 
sequencing software. 

SuperJAMI's patch scroller and 
chord selector are especially unnerv- 
ing. It is too easy to select them by *■ 



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mistake. Once you do, you must choose 
a patch or chord or else move the 
cursor completely off the window be- 
fore releasing the mouse button. A 
standard file requester would be much 
better. Speaking of requesters, the 
SuperJAM! Load File requesters have 
an unusual arrangement of the Load 
and Cancel buttons that can wreak 
havoc if you're not careful. SuperJAM! 
puts a Delete button where you would 
normally expect to find the Load but- 
ton, and gangs the Load and Cancel 
buttons on the right. (Why you need a 
Delete option in a Load requester at all 
is beyond me.) 

The Keyboard window of the pro- 
gram could use a metronome. It's often 
difficult to tell where the downbeat is 
by listening to SuperJAM! wailing away. 
On a similar note, the program can't 
make real-time changes happen in 
time. For example, if you change a 
style on the downbeat, it takes quite a 
few' ticks of the clock for the change to 
register. While there is a Countdown 
feature in the Section window, there is 
none in the Snapshot grid, where you 
could really use it for overdubs. 



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SuperJAM! is extremely user friendly, and 
works great with Bars&Pipes. I wish, how- 
ever, the manual provided more informa- 
tion on other MIDI interfaces you can use. 
The TurboSounds sound good and are 
very helpful, especially considering that 
you can make your own sounds with them. 
Overall, SuperJAM! is an excellent product 
that helps me out a lot. 

Troy Sterling Nies 
Mandan, North Dakota 



I'd also hoped for some better exam- 
ples of TurboSounds than those pro- 
vided. They're thin and a bit cheesy, 
like a Nintendo game. Considering 
some of the awesome sounds we've 
heard come out of the Amiga, I'm 
puzzled that Blue Ribbon banged the 
drum loudly about TurboSound Tech- 
nology and then provided such anemic 
examples. I found standard IFF sounds 



to be much richer and more lifelike 
than their TurboSound cousins. Nei- 
ther were there any clear examples of 
the claimed I6-note polyphony. I'd 
think that a song demonstrating this 
aspect of TurboSound Technology 
would be almost required to illustrate 
and document the hype. 

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Tapping the full potential of SuperJAM! 
will take you some time, but you'll find 
die results well worth the effort. It 
doesn't work like a traditional sequencer, 
so you'll have to think differently about 
recording dian you're probably used to. 
Good! Creativity can be sparked by 
approaching old thought systems in new- 
ways. If things get overwhelming, a call 
to Blue Ribbon tech support will set you 
straight. Be sure to send in your registra- 
tion card so you can take full advantage 
of this service. The staff knows the prod- 
ucts and always takes the time to explain 
things thoroughly and walk you through 
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Wordsworth (Digita International/ 
American Software Distributers. 
$159.95) Calls into the latter category. It 

is a fairly traditional graphic word 
processor, opening a familiar-looking 

ruled window and sporting all of the 
expected tools; multiple fours and text 
styles, IKK graphic support, headers 
and footers, a spelling checker, and a 
thesaurus, just to name a few. 

More Than a Smith Corona 

Krom there. Wordsworth hreaks front 
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tures is Glossary, a daiabasc of user- 
defined phrases, words, and hlocks of 
text that you use frequently. You can 
search through them and insert any 
one into a document at the touch of 
the mouse, saving untold keystrokes. ']o 
save you the lime and frustration of 
Dipping through a manual, Words- 
worth offers a nifty on-line Help fea- 
ture (accessible via the Help key, of all 
things) with assistance on most of the 
program's features. In addition, the 
I lelp text includes page-number refer- 
ences to the nearly 300-page, well- 
written manual for more in-depth 
investigation. 

I lave you ever wished for a vertical 
ruler on your word processor to com- 
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Wordsworth includes one that you can, 
of course, turn oil for more screen 
space. In addition, you can display a 
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oilier things, text format, font type, 
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Wordsworth's presentation, printing, sav- 
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memory usage. With one meg. Words- 
won li is very limited; everything else needs 
to be shut down, as few colors as possible 
used, and no more than two documents 
open ;ii once. I put an extra two megs in 
my A2000, and I ran now if i ;in I please. 
II Digita could increase the speed, 
Wordsworth woidd he the best available 
word pirn essni In \\u. 

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allow you to move around the page, 
but with both the vertical ruler and 
tool box turned on, Wordsworth quick- 
ly gets claustrophobic. 

The spelling checker works by die 
word or entire document and seems 
fairly efficient The program betrayed 
its British roots, however, when the 
spelling checker flagged "color" as a 
misspelling and suggested "colour" 
instead. I was particularly impressed 
with how quickly it worked, though. 
Rather than wait For you to click on a 
Suggest gadget, Wordsworth lists pos- 
sible alternatives as soon as it delects a 
misspelling. 



The thesaurus, although large, labels 
only 30,000 of its entries as root words. 
This places the program at a distinct 
disadvantage compared to. say, Pro- 
Writes thesaurus, which crosslinks all 
of the words in its database'. On the 
other hand. Wordsworth lists its entries 
by parts of speech, making it a rather 
simple task to find the word you're 
searching for. 

When it comes to formatting your 
document, two major requesters guide 
the way: Page Lavout and Paragraph. 
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margins. The Paragraph requester 
handles such issues as line spacing and 
paragraph indents. Wordsworth even 
allows you to configure each paragraph 
in the document differently, if you so 
choose. 

Wordsworth includes a number of 
other niceties, as well. Selecting a 
graphic to place in the document leads 
you to a selector for text runaround, 
palette controls, and text standoff from 
die graphic, lexl may be set to contour 
around either side of a graphic or just 
drop vertically. I leaders and footers do 
not have to be identical on odd and 
even pages and may appear or he hid- 
den on the title page. A flexible page- 
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document looks like before you commit 
to the hard copy. 

You'll also find mail-merge facilities; 
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ASCII, WordPerfect, and ProWrite 
brmat: and an "insert literal" utility 
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last-saved version, Wordsworth can also 
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Looks Good on Paper 

These days, it seems as though even- 
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Wordsworth is no exception. In addi- 
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with the program, one of which is a 
symbols-type font. 

While printing isn't lightning fast by 
any stretch oi the imagination, the 
final product is quite nice when the 
paper does eventually roll out of your 
printer. Continuing another recent 
trend in word processors, Wordsworth 
includes a PostScript driver. If you are 
outpuiting to a PostScript machine, the 
program allows you to render at any 
angle and to scale the page from 5 to 
500 percent. 

There isn't a lot lhat one can find lo 
dislike aboul Wordsworth, bin a few 
things do stick out. Even in high-reso- 
lution, the screen can easily feel a bit 
cramped, as the tide bars slay "medi- 
um-resolution fat" and hog up a siguif- 
icant amount of workspace — and dial's 
withoul die toolbox on! Conspicuously 
missing is macro support, and Digita 
doesn't bring us any index-generation 
capabilities, either. Finally. I happen to 
dislike gimmicks in my productivity 
software, so I found the tiles game to 
be a waste of bytes. The Amiga is, after 
all, a multitasking machine: If I want to 
play a game, I can just push Words- 
worth to the back and bool up Lode 
Runner. 

An intermediate, fluid-working word 
processor, Wordsworth isn't die leader 
of the pack for the .Amiga, but make no 
mistake — it's no slouch, either. If you're 
looking for a program with a little 
muscle lor business or free-lance writ- 
ing, Wordsworth is certainly up to the 
challenge, but if you need turbo- 
charged typing power to pound out a 
mega-volmnc of pastoral poetry, it 
might not be your program. Give 
Wordsworth a test type and decide for 
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Want to keep all your A3 00 expansion 

peripherals under cover f Here's a look 

at the key "insiders, " information on 

how they work together, and strategies 

for expanding internally. 

BY TIM WALSH 



WHILE THE A500 was not built to expand 
as gracefully as the A2000 or 3000, third- 
party developers offer resourceful options 
For those who like to keep things "under 
cover." Now, you can find an internal solution for sev- 
eral types of expansion. 

There is a catch, though. Upgrading the Amiga 500 
internally poses a decision-making process that makes 
a Democratic primary ticket choice look easy. That's be- 
cause incorporating one internal modification often 
eliminates the possibility of doing some other internal 
tweaking when different types of expanders require the 
same connector. Theoretically, you can piggyback com- 
ponents, but yon are unlikely to get stacked compo- 
nents to operate, and even less likely to be able to lit 
the RF shielding and cover back onto the computer 
with parts piled high inside. 

Before making final decisions, you may want to call 



the product's manufacturer and ask about compatibil- 
ity with other components you ahead)' have and with 
your motherboard revision. (For a look at the innards 
of the A500 and where the various expanders install, 
see the photo on p. 30.) 

Because A500 expansion involves tradeoffs, it is wise 
to consider all your options before actually buying any- 
thing. A good place to start is by imagining your dream 
setup — thinking about all the things you would like to 
do with your computer and determining what you 
need in order to do them. Then ask yourself what you 
are willing to live without. 

Once you have thus prioritized your plans, consider 
your total "power budget." The Amiga 500 was not de- 
signed for extensive expansion, so you must take care 
when adding on. The A'jOO's power can safely put out 
about 4.3 amps of electrical current at +5 volts. Unex- 
panded, a stock A500 consumes almost 2 amps. If the 



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expander you're considering has its own power supply, 
vou need not worn; but if it does not, try to find out 
what its power consumption is. When you approach the 
4.:! mark, think about upgrading your A500's power 
supply to one like Micro R&D's Bigfoot (SI 29). (76 lo- 
cate the vendors of the products mentioned, see the "Manu- 
fiiftitrrrs'/Distribiitors' Addresses" list on p. 102.) 

ROM First 

Tile highest priority upgrade is replacing the AfiOO's 
Kickstart 1.2 or 1.3 ROM chip with Commodores 2.04 
ROM and ousting your earlier Workbench version in 
favor of 2.04. 1 encourage all A500 (and A2000) users 
to make the switch, even if you plan no other internal 
modifications. Not only will your computer function 
better, but 2.04's look and feel makes older operating- 
system versions seem clumsy and antiquated. 

Installing a new Kickstart ROM is one of the easiest 
do-it-yourself internal modifications you can make. 
Available in the 2.(14 AmigaDOS upgrade package 
from dealers, it's a small ($99.95.) investment. When 
you open your AS0O, lake a moment to locate the clear- 
ly marked Kickstart ROM and note its oriental ion in 
the socket. Pop it out with either a small flat-blade 
screwdriver or a chip puller, position the new ROM 
chip just as the older chip was oriented, and press it 
into place. You may have to sever, as I did, an insulated 
wire jumper on top of the new Kickstart ROM if you 
have a late revision (6 A or later) of the motherboard. 

If you still want to be able to run 1.3 and/or 1.2 after 
installing your 2.04 ROM upgrade, a couple of prod- 



ucts can help. Both Switch-Itt (S44.50, The Grapevine 
Group) and MultiStart II (S59.95, DKB) allow you to 
switch between R( )Ms. Both units lit into your Amiga's 
ROM socket. MultiStart provides sockets for all three 
ROMs; Switch-Itt accommodates two. 

Hard-Driving Options 

While there are several hard drives available to attach 
to the outside of your A500, ICD is the only manufac- 
turer offering entire internal-A500 hard-disk systems, 
"flic company incorporates versions of its tiny AdIDE 
controller — which installs between the CPU socket and 
the (iSOOO chip itself — into two complete systems for 
the A500 (see the review in this issue). Both drives at- 
tach to the controller via a cable thai drapes across the 
motherboard. 

The 2'/2-inch Novia drive (S245 and up) is available 
in configurations of up to 85MB. It installs on the 
motherboard, covering both the CIA (A) and Paula 
chips. The full-size Prima drive (S397 and up) comes 
in capacities of up to 240MB, bul its installation great Iv 
alters your A500's configuration, as the hard disk re- 
quires the space occupied by the AfiOO's floppy. K'.D's 
Shuffle Board (S30) installs under the Gary chip and 
lets you boot from an external floppy with the Prima 
installed. ICD also sells the controller in kit form 
(SI 10), so you can build your own drive setup. 

Because the AdIDE controller fits onto the CPU 
socket, which advanced processors also require, the in- 
ternal hard-disk systems preclude 68020 and 68030 
boards. However. ICD now offers a controller version 



A.N Insider's Trade Secret 



Here are five important steps I have 
arrived at after years of working on 
Amiga internals. They make handy 
notes to review before and during the 
Amiga 500 internal-upgrade process. 

1, While you should not be afraid to 
take apart your A500, there is no 
shame in feeling uncomfortable about 
poking around inside the machine. 
Even with the latest shop manual in 
hand, I wouldn't try to to rebuild an x- 
ray machine. 

It's far better to have an authorized 
dealer perform the modifications if you 
have doubts. And bear in mind that 
separating the A500's chassis voids 
your warranty. Therefore, it's good 
practice to keep the Torx T-10 screw- 
driver (necessary to open the case) out 
of reach until the warranty expires on 
its own. 

2. Once you've taken your computer 

apart, you will see that all the chips and 
Circuitry arc clearly labeled. That, how- 
ever, does not guarantee a successful 
reassembly. Be certain to mark the 
proper location of cables and orienta- 



tion of chips before disassembling any- 
thing. While the computer is surpris- 
ingly rugged and not easily damaged, 
putting the wrong piece in the wrong 
place can be disastrous. 

3. Read installation instructions care- 
fully. Hardware manuals are accurate, 
but some leave "obvious" points iin- 
menlioned. If something does not 
make sense, call the manufacturer and 
ask them for an explanation of what- 
ever steps seem to be missing. 

4. If you choose to install internal com- 
ponents yourself, be forewarned that it 
requires the kind of prying, pulling, 
and pushing encountered in automo- 
tive repair — but without the greasy 
hands and on a much smaller scale. 

Be sure to use the right tools. These 
include flat-blade. Torx T-10, and #1 
Phillips screwdrivers, a chip puller, and 
a pair of needlenose pliers. 

Always ground yourself — it's best to 
use a grounding wristband (available 
at computer stoics) — before taking the 
computer apart, especially on cool, dry 
days. Vou must also make sure your ma- 



chine is unplugged before you begin. 

5. lake care when extracting chips. 
Gently pry each end, using a minia- 
ture flat-blade screwdriver or a chip 
puller. Popping out the relatively large 
CIA, Kickstart ROM, and 68000 chips 
is only moderately difficult compared 
with pulling smaller, less accessible 
chips. 

Despite years of practice, I occasion- 
ally manage to mangle pins on chips. 
If you bend a pin or two, a pair of 
needlenose pliers and steady hands are 
all that's needed to straighten them. 
Experience has taught me that most 
pins withstand about three or four re- 
ally savage bends and corresponding 
straightenings before they snap off and 
render the chip unusable. 

6. Before reassembling your computer 
and starting it up, check all your con- 
nections to make sure there is no 
board-to-board or board-to-anything 
contact — unless you're in the mood lor 
some colorful (and expensive!) sparks 
and arcs. 'ITiey are a sure sign you con- 
nected something wrong. — TW 



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with the linn's tiny AdSpeed accelerator attached, so 
some acceleration is still possible. 

Spirit Technology's brand-new In-Mate ($379 un- 
populated) board offers internal RAM expansion (up 
to 8MB), a custom-designed 68000, and a socket Tor a 
coprocessor (speeding math-intensive work), along 
with a SCSI interlace that lets you connect with a SCSI 
bard drive. (The slightly Taster SCSI standard is more 
common than IDF. in the Amiga realm, though drives 
are plentiful for both.) In-Mate plugs onto the CPU, 
measures about 6'/->x8 inches, and has no CPU socket. 
Spirit promises lull 2.04 compatibility in its upcoming 
revision. 

While a hard disk gives you greater speed in loading 
programs and data stored there, adding a CPU accel- 
erator is the only way to make your Amiga 500 actually 
execute programs faster. Unlike the A200Q and A3000, 
the A500 lacks an accelerator slot, so to install an ac- 
celerator in [he A500, yon must disassemble the com- 
puter, pry out the (iSOOO processor chip, and place the 
accelerator board in its socket. 

There are a number of accelerators for the AaOO. 
(For details on accelerators, see "The 'Ami 500'" p. 38, 
April '91 .) These include /CD's AdSpeed 68000 accel- 
erator(available for $209 without an ICD hard-drive 
system), as well as TTR's Sapphire ($249.95) and CSA's 
Midget Racer ($255), both (58020 processors. (All 
three offer similar speed boosts, although the AdSpeed 
does not accommodate a math coprocessor.) 

CSA's Mega-Midget Racer ($599 and up) and 
MicroBotks new VXL*30 (S399 and up) are high-per- 
formance powerhouses, both offering (58030 CPUs and 
68882 math chips, 32-bit RAM options, and perfor- 
mance results commonly associated with a 25-MII/. 
A3000. These two boards are roughly the same si/e as 
die In-Mate. Each comes with legs that lit between the 
board and the Amiga's CPU socket, lifting the card just 
enough to safely clear low-profile expanders — such as 
a ROM switcher, ICD's Flicker Free Video, or DKB's 
MegAChip — beneath it. 

Internal Medicine 

For many of us, running MS-DOS applications equates 
to ingesting horrible-lasting medicine. Nevertheless, 
M.S-1N ).S soli waif is here to Slav, and IBM ciiihI.iii.hi 
can be a very handy prospect. Of the three MS-DOS 
emulators for the A500, two lit inside the case. (GVP's 
new 286 emulator installs inside the case of the com- 
pany's external hard-drive system. Watch for a review- 
in an upcoming issue.) 

In the case of Vortex's ATonce-Plus emulator ($399), 
PC/AT emulation is well refined lor your A500. To in- 
stall it. open [he computer, pop out the (>8000 chip, 
press the A'lbncc-Plus into place, and then insert the 
(58000 into a socket on top of the ATonce-Plus. Finally, 
reassemble your computer. 

With the software provided, you can run many IBM- 
PC applications and utilities on your Amiga 500. Of 
course, like any other product thai uses the CPU suck- 
el, you must sacrifice other options. 

Unlike Vortex's AT emulator, Supras Power PC 
Board ($399.95), an 80C86 emulator, lits into the ex- 
pansion slot of the A500. It does not seem to work with 
the AdIDE controller (although it is not a good practice 
to stack things on the processor socket, anyway). Fur- 
ther, it lacks AT capability, which dates its technology. 



New software reportedly supports hard disks, VGA, 
and other video modes, as well as extended memory. 
A different type of medicine is necessary to cure 
video flicker. If you work in high-resolution interlaced 
mode, you know bow annoying that flicker is. You may 
also know that ICDs Flicker Free Video ($299). which 
works in combination with a multisync monitor, is the 
only A500 add-on to provide relief. (For a full review 
of Flicker Free Video, see Aug. '9 1 . p. 1 (5. For a discus- 
sion of multisync monitors, see "Screen Tests," p. 39 
in this issue.) Flicker \-ivl- Video plugs in between the 




Like ICD's AdRAM, Expansion Systems' BASEboard is a two- 
piece system; three-piece with an optional 4MB attachment. 

Denise chip and its socket and extends from the Denise 
to the back edge of the motherboard. 

RAMBUNCTIOUS 

Unlike flicker, RAM is something Amiga owners 
cannot get enough of. If you decide on a multipur- 
pose board — such as the In-Mate, Mega-Midget, or 
VXL*30 — that provides slots for fast RAM, you may 
not want to bother with anything else. (In the case of 
accelerators, adding here gives you the most bang for 
your buck. See "RAM For All Seasons" on p. 31 of this 
issue for the lowdown on all kinds of RAM expan- 
sion.) Similarly, if you already have an external ex- 
pander — a RAM-only or RAM-and-hard-drive unit — 
you may be able to add memory to it while leaving 
your other options open. 

Otherwise, adding to the A501 expansion slot be- 
neath the chassis is ;i good solution with only one draw- 
back: Because the Power PC board also occupies the 
A50I slot, you must choose between it and A501 -style 
RAM cards. Excepting that, cards inserted into the 
A50I slot do not get in the way of other internal devices 
and seemingly offer 100% compatibility with hard 
drives and accelerators. 

Adding a 512K-only board such as the Commodore 
A501 or a compatible involves nothing more than 
opening the trap door beneath the 500 and pushing 
the card into place (see the list of other half-meg 
boards (hat accompanies the photo on p. 30). If you 
arc sure you will not want more than an additional 
5 1 2K on the underside, the half-meg cards arc an easy, 
reliable, and inexpensive solution. 

Unless you have another means of adding memory, »» 



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Inside Out 



You're not familiar w'ilh the A500's motherboard? \o problem! 
We've identified the major chips and connectors that internal 
expanders plug into, noting which products attach where. 

The expansion devices shown hovering above the moth- 
erboard are {counterclockwise from die top right): ICD's Pri- 
ma hard-disk drive, which runs a cable to the left side of the 
A500 where the AdIDE controller installs beneath [he 68000 



CIA (A) 



chip. MicroBolics' VXL*30 (bottom left) is representative of 
the larger peripherals that require CPU connection. At the 
lower right, Supra's Power PC board heads toward the Ami- 
ga's A501 connector. .Although you see il from the lop, in- 
stallation of boards that attach here usually involves nothing 
more than popping the hatch on the computer's underside 
and making the connection. 



CIA (B): 

ICD's Shuffle Board 



Denize chip: 

ICD's Flicker Free Video 



CPU connector 



CSA's Midget and MegaMi 
ICD's AdSpeed and AdID 
MicroBotics' VXL'30 
Spirit's In-Mate 
TTR's Sapphire 
Vortex's ATOnce Plus 




Floppy-drive mount: 
ICD's Prima 



Agnus chip: 
DKB's MegAChip 



Kick start ROM: 
DKB's MulliStart II 
Grapevine Group's Swilch-ltt 



mector: 
CBM's A501 and "clones": 

CHS's RA5 

MicroBotics' 501s 

Rio Computers' 512K RAM 
"Codec's RM 5S0C 

Skyles" S12K RAM 

Supra's SupraRAM 500 
Expansion Systems' BASEboard 
ICD's AdRAM 
Supra's PowerPC 



however, you may want to consider a more flexible so- 
lution, such as Expansion Systems' BASEboard 
($129.95 unpopulated) or /CD's AdRAM 540 (3109 
unpopulated). Both products allow up to 4MB of 
RAM — 6MB with an optional component. There is a 
small price lo pay for this boost in expandability: These 
boards are slightly more complicated to install than the 
512K expanders. In addition to slipping the main 
board into the A501 slot under the computer, you must 
install a secondary board between the Amiga's Gary 
chip and its socket on the motherboard. 

If vou also want to increase your chip RAM quotient, 
DKB oilers MegAChip 2000/500 ($299.95; see die re- 
view on p. 74, May '92). This little board installs in the 
.Amiga's Agnus socket and lets you plug in Commo- 
dore's Super Agnus chip, which allows you to access 
2MB of chip RAM for graphics and other applications 



that require the Amiga's custom chips. Because it 
comes with one megabyte of RAM installed, you need 
only another half-megabyte in the A501 slot to access 
die full amount of chip RAM. MegAChip does not take- 
away from your maximum fast RAM total; with the ad- 
ditional megabyte of chip RAM, your system ceiling is 
10MB, not die usual 9MB. 

The Finished Product 

If you have come to the conclusion that the Amiga 
500 is a good platform for upgrading on a budget. 
you're right. Sure, its diminutive size and lack of in- 
ternal space make modifications a challenge, but you 
can expand with good results. It's a remarkably grati- 
fying experience to take a computer apart, install 
new components, reassemble the parts, and see ev- 
erything working once again. ■ 



30 June 1992 



Big 3" Upgrades — Part I: Memory 




RAM 

For 

All 
Seasons 



While buying RAM is a dicey business, there's no reason 

to lose your head over it. Here in Part I (Memory) of a three-part series on upgrading 

essential system resources, you'll discover the various types of RAM, 

their uses for different applications, and the available configurations/ combinations. 



/f this were indeed Utopia, we would not have to worry 
about our memory Failing. In this less-than-perfect 
world, however, we not only have to be concerned about 
our own memory, but that ofour computer. A few years back, 
512K seemed like all the room in the world. These days, 
though, more and more software packages are coming with la- 
bels thai read "One Megabyte Required" or even "Iwo or More 
Megabytes Recommended." As applications become ever more 
sophisticated, you may Find it difficult to run one program at 
a time, let alone multitask. 

Fortunately, your computer's memory, unlike your own, is 
easily expanded. Once you have come to the conclusion thai 
it's time to upgrade, however, you are immediately faced with 
an avalanche of questions. How much memory should I get? 
What kind of upgrade: internal or external? single-function or 



combination board? chip or fast? 16- or 32-bit? Taken together, 
the choices involved may seem overwhelming at first, but as 
we consider them one at a time, you will soon find that they 
are not so hard to sort out. (For information on contacting the de- 
velopers of products mentioned in this article, consult the "Manufac- 
turers'/ 'Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 102.) 

Chip RAM vs. Fast RAM 

ITie computer's main processor chip uses memory to store pro- 
grams and the raw information those programs manipulate. 
Unlike most computers, the Amiga has additional processor 
chips that can display graphics and play music, independent 
of the main processor. These coprocessors also need to use 
memory as temporary storage for their instructions and data. 
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RAM. that can be shared between the main processor 
and tbe graphics and sound coprocessors. The total 
amount of chip RAM is restricted to 512K, one mega- 
byte, or two megabytes, depending on which version 
ol tile Agnus chip your computer supports. In addition 
to chip RAM, every Amiga is capable of using /iv.v/ RAM, 
a tvpe of RAM that is accessible onlv by the main pro- 
cessor, not bv the coprocessors. 

Only the A3000 provides sockets for adding fast 
RAM to the system, and it allows yon to easily add more 
than SMB. On all other Amiga models, you must add 
some kind of board lo bold the last RAM; also, you are 
generally limited to 8MB oft (5-bit fast RAM (although 
you can surmount this limit by adding accelerator 
boards, as we shall see later in this article and in the 
sidebar 'Accelerating Memory"). 

Most expansion RAM is fast memory, since that is the 
type most easily added. Most ol tl lis article, therefore, 
will deal with fast RAM expansion. Having enough 
chip RAM, however, is also very important (see the 
sidebar "Don't Stint on Chip RAM"). So, in the rest of 
this section, let's first examine the various ways you can 
increase chip RAM, depending on the system you own. 

For owners of early A2000s, the process is as simple 
as buying a new Agnus chip and changing a mother- 
board jumper, which converts all of the memory on the 
motherboard to chip RAM. Your dealer should be able 
to make this alteration for about SI 00. 

Many Amiga 500 owners already have an Agnus chip 
that supports 1MB of chip RAM. Generally, however, 
this capability has not been activated, because doing so 
prevents the A500 from operating without tbe A50 1 or 
similar expansion module installed and may also cause 
incompatibility with some peripherals, ('the A501 is 
Commodore's 5 1 2K RAM expansion and clock module 
that plugs in the slot beneath the "trap door" on the 
bottom of the A500.) 

The modification required to activate 1MB of chip 
RAM on the A500 is fairly simple, but Commodore 
strongly discourages it: The company will neither pro- 
vide warranty senice on motherboards that have been 
so modified, nor will it accept them in trade for re- 
placements, 'this policy may soon change, however, as 
the upcoming CLYTV add-on for the A500 is reported 
to require 1MB of chip RAM. Until then, von should 
think twice before making the modification. 



Expanding the Amiga 3000 to 2MB of chip RAM is 
easy. All you have to do is remove the chips installed 
as fast memory and plug them into the chip RAM sock- 
ets, as detailed in the manual. Currently, however, the 
only way to expand an A2000 or AS00 to 2MB of chip 
RAM is with DKB\ MegAChip 2000/500, a plug-in ex- 
pansion board that requires the same two-meg Agnus 
chip as the A3000 (part number 8372B). This board 
costs about S399 with the Agnus chip installed. 

The only way that Amiga 1000 owners ran expand 
their chip memory past 512K is to purchase either the 
Rejuvenator daughterboard replacement ($489.95, 
Expert Services), which now handles up lo 2MB of chip 
RAM (add on another S 1 25 lor the RAM itself), or the 
Phoenix motherboard replacement, which comes with 
2MB of chip RAM installed ($850, Phoenix Microtech- 
nologies/Grapev in e Group ) . 

The Physical Connection 

While Commodore has provided several methods for 
adding expansion RAM lo the various Amiga models, 
enterprising manufacturers have come up with some 
unusual methods of their own. Let's examine each of 
the four basic Amiga systems — A3000, A2000, A500, 
and A1000 — in terms of internal and external architec- 
ture and then see how RAM expansion products from 
a variety of hardware developers succeed in delivering 
additional memory in each instance. 

Please note that — except in certain very specific cas- 
es — no price information will be given for the various 
memory-expansion devices presented in the rest of the 
article. There are so many different factors likely to in- 
fluence the exact configuration you may choose — 
amount of RAM. type of RAM, system configuration. 
RAM expansion in combination with other peripher- 
als, etc. — that individual prices lor stand-alone, unpop- 
ulated boards or even ballpark package costs will not 
be of much help. Use the information below lo help 
you figure out what kind of expansion — and particular 
configuration — best suits your system needs, and then 
contact the manufacturer or your dealer to discuss 
price options. 

Expanding memory is easiest in the the A3000, be- 
cause that system comes with sockets for additional 
RAM right on the motherboard. The ASO00 lias four 
rows of sockets that can be filled with either one- > 



Don't Stint on Chip RAM 



All. AMIGA MODELS except the 
A3000 come with only chip R4M in- 
stalled. The main processor and the co- 
processors lake turns using this R\M; 
most of the time this sharing is not evi- 
dent, because one processor uses the 
RAM only when the other is busy doing 
something else. If she graphics chips 
are very busy doing complex graphics. 
however, they can make the main pro- 
cessor wait to access chip RAM, slowing 
down all main processing operations. 
That's why it is helpful to have at least 



some fast RAM. Because only the main 
processor can use fast RAM, it never 
has to share it with the coprocessors. 

Oil the other hand, no matter how 
much fast RAM you add, if you only have 
5 1 2K ol chip RAM. vou mav not be able 
to run several graphics-intensive pro- 
grams at the same time or lo make use 
of such options as holding large graphics 
clips in memory. Even with 8MB of fast 
RAM, you will probably be unable to 
make adequate use of such popular pro- 
grams as ASDG's AD Pro, Electronic 



Arts' DRiinl IV, or Cold Disk's Pro hige 
2.0 — not to mention 2-i-bit paint pro- 
grams such as Digital Creations' DCTV 
Paint and Impulse's Light2-1 or New- 
Tck's Video Toaster software. 

A500, A2000, or A 1 000 owners with 
less than 1MB of chip RAM who use a 
lot of graphics-oriented programs 
should look at increasing chip memory. 
Also, some owners of A3000s with the 
standard 1 VI 15 ol i hip R \\l installed 
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megabit (256x4) or four-megabit (1 megx4) ZIP chips. 
You can add 1, 2, 3, or 4MB if you use one-megabit 
parts, and 4, 8, 12, or 16MB or fast RAM using four- 
megabit parts. 

You cannot mix chips ofdiffcretit densities, however, 
so once you install the one-megabit parts, you are lim- 
ited to 4M B of expansion. Nor can you mix page-mode 
and static-column RAMs, (See the sidebar "Memory 
Chip Buyer's Guide" for explanations of the various 
types of RAM chips.) For this reason, most A3000 own- 
ers add memory in 4MB increments, using four- 
megabit static-column RAM chips. For those "power 
users" who End 16MB of fast RAM too limiting, Pro- 
gressive Peripherals sells a 64MB ProRAM card lor the 
A3000 that (its into a 32-bit expansion slot. (You can 
use A2000 RAM cards in the A3000.) 

The Amiga 2000 does not have any sockets for fast 
RAM on the motherboard, but it does come with live 
16-bit expansion slots that can be used lor memory 
cards. Several manufacturers make RAM expansion 
boards for the A2000, most of which allow you to add 
from 2 to 8MB of 16-bit fast memory in two-megabyte 
increments, Iliese include Commodore's 2080, GKP's 
A2000-RAM 8/0 half-card, Supra's SupraRAM 2000, 
MicroBotics' 8-UPL and ICD\ AdRAM 2080. 

The biggest difference among these boards is the 
form of memory chips they use. Most boards require 
you to plug in DIP-formal (Dual Inline Package) mem- 
ory chips, Some, however, use SIMM (Single Inline- 
Memory Module) packages. SIMMs are much easier lo 
add yourself, requiring only one module per megabyte. 
(See the sidebar "Memory Chip Buyer's Guide" for 
more on Dll*s and SIMMs.) 



The Amiga 500 has neither sockets for more RAM, 
nor any internal slots for memory-expansion cards. .All 
it provides is an external expansion connector and a 
single memory connector located behind a plastic 
hatch on the bottom of the computer. This connector 
was designed for Commodore's A501 or similar 512K 
expansion modules such as those available from Rio 
Computers, ICD, and Phoenix/Grapevine Group. If 
you have a 5I2K Amiga 500 and want to expand to 
only 1MB, you can easily add this kind of module your- 
self for less than S75 — and get a battery-powered 
clock/calendar at the same time. If you plan to expand 
to more than 1MB, however, you may decide to skip 
the 5 1 2K expander and go directly to something a little 
more substantial. 

One way to add fast RAM to an A500 is through the 
external expansion connector on the left side of the 
computer. Two such RAM-only expansion modules for 
the A500 arc Supra's SupraRam 500RX and Golden- 
IMAGEs RC-1000. The former is very small, holds up 
to 8MB of RAM, and provides a pass-through that al- 
lows you to plug other peripherals into the expansion 
connector. In addition to direct-connect A500 memory 
modules, there are adapters that plug into the expan- 
sion connector, providing one or more A2000-compat- 
ible slots into which you may plug A2000 memory 
boards. The newest of these devices is Micro R&D\ 
SlingShot (S39.95), which provides one A2000-style 
slot connector. 

Although Commodore provided for only 512K of 
memory expansion through the internal connector, 
several manufacturers have found a way to add up to 
4MB or more of fast RAM using boards that plug into « 



Memory Chip Buyer s Guide 



DO THOSE ADS for memory chips 
look like they're written in Greek? They 
won't after you've learned the standard 
terms used to describe different types 
of memory chips: 

Package Type 

Memory chips come in DIPs (Dual In- 
line Package), ZIPs (Zig-zag single In- 
line Package), and SIMMs (Single In- 
line Memory Modules). DIPs are the 
familiar rectangular chips with a row of 
metal legs sticking out of each side. 
This is the most common package, so 
unless otherwise specified, a chip will 
probably be a DIP ZIPs are long, thin 
rectangles with slightly bent legs that 
come out of one side. SIMMs look like 
small circuit boards holding several 
memory chips, with a long flat connec- 
tor on one side. 

Capacity and Organization 

Chip capacity is measured in bits, not 
bytes. A megabit is one million bits. If 
you are buying "one-meg" (i.e., one- 



megabit) chips, you need eight of them 
to make a megabyte of memory. Be- 
cause SIMMs use several chips each, 
however, a "one-meg" SIMM contains 
one megabyte. 

Not all chips use the same organiza- 
tion. Some one-megabit chips are orga- 
nized as one row of one megabit (lxl), 
and some as four rows of 256K bits 
(256x4). (A kilobit is one thousand bits.) 
The most common one-megabyte 
SIMMs are organized as 1x8, while the 
most common four-megabyte SIMMs 
are 4x8. Watch out for 1x9 or 4x9 
SIMMS; they're used by IBM-compat- 
ible computers, not Ainigas. 

Speed 

Dynamic RAMs come furnished with 
access speeds — measured in nanoseconds 
(ns) — that range from 120ns (slow) to 
70ns or less (fast). Most Ami gas use the 
relatively slow 68000 processor run- 
ning at 7 MHz, so any chip 120ns or 
faster works fine. Don't pay more for 
faster 70ns parts, since they will not 



make the standard Amiga run any 
faster than slower chips. When you're 
buying memory for accelerators with 
advanced (68030/040) processors, 
however, faster chips may mean fewer 
wait slates and better performance, 
find out from the manufacturer what 
the speed limit is. 

Refresh Type 

Most boards use Dynamic RAMs 
(DRAMs), which come in high capacities 
and are relatively cheap. Only a few spe- 
cial boards use Static R'lMs {SRAMs), 
which are much faster, come in lower ca- 
pacities, and are more expensive. 

Address Mode 

The A3000 and some 68030 accelera- 
tor boards may use special Static Col- 
umn HIM chips (SCRAMs) — instead of 
the more common Page Mode RAMs — 
to enable the special "burst" addressing 
mode. Don't confuse the Static Column 
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the A50 1 slot. Most include a small daughterboard that 
plugs in under the Gary chip to make the additional 
connections needed to address move RAM. Two such 
boards art 1 /CDs AdRAM 540 and Expansion System's 
BASEboard. 

While the internal hoards tend to cost a few dollars 
less than units that require an external case, they also 
have some drawbacks. Most cannot autoconfigure all 
of their memory (beyond a certain point, you have to 
run a program to add the rest of the memory), and 
these types of boards are somewhat more likely to run 
into compatibility problems with certain hardware and 
software products. Perhaps the biggest drawback, how- 
ever, is that if you already have a ">12K. expander 
plugged in, you must remove it and try to sell it for 
whatever yon can get. 

Another location used by some manufacturers for 
adding memory boards is under the 6S000 chip. For 
the A1000, DKB offers the Insider II, which provides 
up to 1.5 MB of fast RAM and a battery-backed clock/ 
calendar ($199.99 unpopulated). 

Installation of these boards is a bit trickier than for 
plug-in cards, and they make it hard to use other de- 
vices thai plug into the processor socket, such as accel- 
erator boards and ICD's AdIDK hard-drive interface. 
At this point, however, these internal boards arc about 
the onlv RAM-expansion products left for the A 10(1(1. 
Technically speaking, cards thai plug into the A500 ex- 
pansion port should work on the A 1000 as well, but 
most cover up the two mouse ports when plugged in. 

The Right Combination 

Much of the cost of adding memory does not come 
from the chips themselves, bin from the boards and 
boxes thai hold them. \\\ combining RAM expansion 
with other peripherals that also need these boards and 
boxes, hardware developers can reduce these costs. 
One of the most popular combinations joins a hard- 
drive controller to a RAM-expansion card. In fact, 
these combination boards are so popular that it's hard 
to buy a hard-drive controller without memory-expan- 
sion capabilities. 

This means that if you do not have a hard drive but 
plan to buy one, you may be better off buying a con- 
troller with RAM expansion, even if'vou don't buv the 
hard drive immediately. Otherwise, you may buy a 
RAM card now, and end up paying lor RAM expansion 
you don't need when you finally do buv the hard drive. 

Combination hard-drive controller/RAM boards for 



the A2000 include GFP's Series II A2000-HC8+, the 
ICD AdSCSI 2080. the TVS (Interactive Video Systems) 
Grand Slam, Expansion Systems' DataFlyer. Xetec\ Fast- 
Card, and the Nexus 2000 from Advanced Storage Sys- 
tems. Even Commodore's 2091 controller — which comes 
standard in computers like the A2000HD and A2500, 
and separately for the A2000— oilers up to 2MB of RAM 
expansion on the controller (although the company 
does not heavily advertise this fact). If you have pur- 
chased either of these models, you may have built-in 
RAM-expansion capability without even knowing it! 

f lard-drive/RAM combinations arejust a.s popular on 
the Amiga ")()(). Since you have to add an external case 
for the hard drive anyway, it simply makes sense to in- 
clude RAM-expansion capabilities. Most A500 hard 
drives now come with built-in RAM expansion capacity, 
so keep these combination units in mind if von are look- 
ing for memory expansion but nuiv want to add a hard 
drive in the future. Several companies — including GVP, 
Supra, Commodore. Interactive Video Systems, Expan- 
sion Systems, Xetec, and Roctec — manufacture combina- 
tion hard-drive/memory-expansion units fortheASOO. 
Expansion Systems and Xetec also sell hard drive/mem- 
ory combinations for the Amiga 1000. 

Wide and Fast 

Any memory you add to an Amiga that uses the 68000 
processor (the A500, A1000. orA2000) is 16-bii mem- 
ory, while the memory you add to the A3000 is 32-bit 
memory. These terms refer lo the amount of informa- 
tion that can be transferred between memory and the 
processor in a single operation, not to any character- 
istics of the memory chips themselves. In most cases, 
exactly the same RAM chips are used lor 32-bit mem- 
ory as for 16-bit. 

When you connect an accelerator board with an ad- 
vanced processor like the 68030 to the Amiga 2000 or 
A500, it still can communicate only with normal system 
memory 1 6 bits al a time. To avoid this bottleneck, ac- 
celerator boards usually provide a way to bypass the 
normal systems-communications channel, connecting 
expansion RAM directly to the 32-bit processor. Accel- 
erators provide maximum speed increases only when 
some 32-bit memory is attached. 

Using 32-bit processors also increases the amount of 
memory yon can add lo your system, because they can 
address up to four gigabytes of memory. By using ac- 
celerator memory, you can overcome the 8MB limit on 
last RAM imposed by 68000-based machines (see the » 



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with the kind of processor used in the 
system. The Motorola 68000 — the 
standard processor used in all Amiga 
models except the Amiga 3000 — has a 
16MB address space. The A5O0/20OO 
architecture reserves 2MB of that 



space for chip RAM and 6MB for de- 
vices and Rickstart ROM, leaving a 
maximum of only 8MB available for 
fast RAM. 

Advanced processors such as the 
68030 and 68040 can address up to a 
whopping four gigabytes (4096MB) of 
memory. The reason that ASOOOs and 
other accelerated Amiga systems can 
exceed the 8MB fast-RAM expansion 



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sidebar "Accelerating Memoiy" for ;m explanation of 
why this is so). Wliile no accelerator at present comes 
remotely close to tapping the four-gigabyte maximum, 
these boards at least represent a start for those users 
who require large amounts of additional RAM. 

For instance, the maximum expansion capacities of 
GWs line of 68030 accelerator cards For the Amiga 
2000 range from 13 to 16MB. While Commodore's, 
own 2630 accelerator can handle onlv either 2 or 
4MB of 32-bit RAM. DKB's forthcoming 2632 RAM 
card will allow 2630 users to add over 1 OOM U of RAM 
to their boards. Some 68030 boards, such as the CSA 
Mega-Midget Racer and the MicroBofics VXL-30, 
will also fit into the Amiga 500. In addition, CSA of- 
fers a 32-bit RAM board, the MM 2150, that adds up 
to 8MB of 32-bit RAM to the Mega-Midget, and Mi- 
croBotics plans to introduce its own RAM add-on for 
the VXL. 

The next-generation 68040 accelerator boards allow 
you loadd even more 32-bit RAM. Maximum memory 
on A2000 accelerator boards ranges from 32MB for the 
RCS Fusion Forty and Progressive Peripherals' 040/ 
2000, to 32MB for the CSA 40/4 Magnum. For the 
A3000, GVP's G-Force accelerator tops out at 8MB, 
while Progressive Peripherals' Mercury allows for 32MB. 

Once you have bought an accelerator, any further 
RAM that you buy should probably go on the acceler- 
ator in order to gel maximum speed from your RAM 
purchase. Do not, however, let a planned purchase of 
an accelerator board stop you front buying needed 16- 
bit RAM now. Any extra 16-bil RAM you acquire may 
still be used once your accelerator is installed. 

Decisions, Decisions. . . 

.As you can see, there are lots of ways to add RAM to 
your Amiga. When you go to buy expansion RAM. here 
are some questions you should ask: 

/. What kind of support ran I expert from the company that 
manufactures this board? While price and features are im- 
portant factors in your buying decision, they should 
not be your sole considerations. Manufacturing hard- 
ware add-ons is an extremely competitive business, and 
companies oll'ering low-cost peripherals come and go 
all the time — leaving their customers with nowhere to 
turn when problems arise. If you take the time to find 
a company that has substantial resources, has been in 
business for a while, provides its users with an upgrade 
path, and has earned a good reputation for customer 
support, you will be much less likely to be stuck with 
an "orphan" later on. 

2. How win h total memory will this expansion product allow 
me to add? By now, any RAM expansion product that 
von buv should offer a minimum of at least 8MB of 
expansion. 

3. Do I get the maximum R-iM with this board? Or, do I 
have to buy an add-on board alter a certain point? A 
board that delivers full expansion without costly add- 
ons is dearly preferable. 

■f. hi what increments can RAM be added? A board that al- 
lows you to add 512K or 1MB at a time provides more 
flexibility than one that requires you to add 4MB at once. 
Considering the cost of RAM, however, boards that add 



a minimum of 2MB at a time are perfectly acceptable. 

5. What HAM packages are used? SIMMs are easier to 
plug in than DII^. /.U\ tend to be a bit more expensive 
and harder to find than either SIMMs or DIPs. 

6. What RAM densities are required lo achieve maximum 
memory? Currently, one- and four-megabit parts are 
about equal in cost per megabyte, and cither type 
should do fine. Boards that use four-megabit parts re- 
quire fewer chips, which make them both easier lo pop- 
ulate and lower in power requirements, but these 
boards may require you to add memory in larger in- 
crements. You will probably want lo avoid boards that 
still use 256-kilobit chips, because they require you to 
add 32 chips for each megabyte of memory. 

7. If a board allows you to use snvral types of RAM, ran sou 
use more than one type at a time? Some boards can use ei- 
ther one- or four-megabit parts, but once you add one- 
megabit chips, you cannot use any higher-densitj pans 
without first removing all of the memory yon have al- 
ready installed (the .Amiga 3000 uses this sort of expan- 
sion scheme). Boards that allow you to mix and match 
various RAMs provide the most flexibility. If the board 
you choose does not have this capability, you should 
probably use only the density of chip thai provides 
maximum expansion capabilities. 

8. Does all of the memoiy autoamfigure? Almost all expan- 
sion RAM is automatically recognized by the system, 
but some requires configuration software — particularly 
32-bit boards that add memoiy above the 1 6-megabyte 
address space of the 68000. Autoconfiguration is less 
of an issue if you have a hard drive, because you can 
add the configuration process to a single startup file 
rather than to every floppy that vou own. 

9. How much memoiy should I add now? That's the 64- 
megabyte question, and the answer depends on what 
kinds of programs you use and how much money vou 
have to spend. Since all but a few programs run on sys- 
tems that have 1MB of chip RAM and 2MB of fast 
RAM, that's an excellent place to start. If you use pro- 
grams like ASDG's Art Department Professional or 
Digital Creations' DCTV Paint, however, you'll want at 
least 4MB of fast RAM and possibly more. If you use 
Newtek's Video Toaster, you really should have 8MB 
of fast RAM and I or 2MB of chip RAM. If you are a 
3D-rendering fanatic (like /Iff" s Lou Wallace!) the an- 
swer is "all you can get, and more." 

There really is no wrong way to add RAM to your 
Amiga. However you accomplish it, you'll increase both 
the number and sophistication of the applications that 
you can run at once. So, boost your RAM! ■ 

Next month: Part II of Sheldon Lcemon 's series will focus 
on buying additional processing power through accelerators. 
After that; Part Iff will look at increasing storage capacity. 

Sheldon Leemon is a well-respected authority on virtually ev- 
ery aspect of the Amiga. When he is no! writing books or mag- 
azine articles, you can find him working at Slipped Disk, a 
Michigan-based Amiga dealership. Write to him c/o Amiga- 
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Scouting for the best monitor to display your Amiga's output? 
Check out these tips to find the right talent for the part. 



"DON'T AUTOMATICALLY BUY the stan- 
dard 55mm lens they try to sell von with the 
camera," ;i photography teacher instructs his 

class. "Yon may he belter of! spending a lew 
more dollars on an adjustable lens. It can save 
yon money in the long run — when you're read}' 
for greater flexibility.*' 

And so it is with monitors. While the "stan- 
dard" model may suit your needs, it is at least 
worthwhile to consider other options. Whether 
you are assembling a new system or tired of an 
old monitor that delivers a cramped, muddy, 
or llickering display, you should know what 
those options are. Sales clerks Love people who 
walk in simply demanding a better display 
("Believe me, anything less than this 40-inch 
screen wouldn't do your work just ice, and don't 
worry, we can arrange multiyear financing"), so 
you are much better off researching the lield 
before you shop, (lb locals the vendors of products 
mentioned, see the "Altiiiufiiriiirt'rs'/Distrilitilors' Ad- 
dresses " Hsi on p. 102.) 

First, consider the basics. How do you plan 
to use the monitor? If you do video work, you 
need a composite display to properly judge 
how the colors in your projects will appear on 
tape. For general use, an analog RGB monitor 
does the job jusi hne. What do von plan to use 
the monitor with? It must be able to match (he 
scan rate of the display mode or graphics-en- 
hancer board you are using. Where are you go- 



ing to ptit it? Measure your desk space— the 

larger the display, the larger the case around it. 
How much can you alTbrd? As always, qnalilv 
costs. Keeping your answers to these general 
questions in mind will help you put the 
specifics in proper perspective as we investigate 
some of the key issues. 

Plan for Scan 

The single most important consideration is the 
monitor's horizontal scan rate. II "your monitor 
cannot sync with your Amiga, you'll be in the 
dark. Also called the horizontal scanning fre- 
quency or synchronization frequency, the hor- 
izontal scan rate is the speed at which the rows 
of pixels are drawn across the screen from the 
left. Standard Amiga graphics modes display 
at a horizontal scan rate of 15.75 KHz. Be- 
cause most monitors refresh the screen 60 
limes per second, the 15.75 KHz scan rate 
means the Amiga can draw only about 240 
lines per refresh. To create a 400-line hi-res 
picture, the Amiga must update alternating 
lines on each pass, which causes the familiar 
interlaced flicker. 

Display enhancers (such as the ASOOO's built- 
in deinterlacer, ICD's Flicker Free Video Tor all 
other models, and MicroWav's Nicker Fixer for 
the A2000) double the horizontal scan rale to 
31.5 KHz, allowing twice as many pixel rows to 
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a noninterlaced hi-res display. Productivity mode — new 
with ilit: Enhanced Chip Set unci Amiga DOS 2.0 — uses 
I he same principle. 

If von plan to use onlv normal Amiga modes, you 
need a [5.75 KHz monitor. Such graphic enhimcer de- 
vices as DC IV (Digital Creations). 1 1AM -E (Black Belt 
Systems). Firecracker 2-1 (Impulse). ErameBuffer (Re- 
liable), and the Video Toaster (X'ewTek) run at 15.75 
KHz, as well. 

If you prefer Productivity mode or have a delnter- 
lacer, your monitor must run at 31.5 KHz. II you think 
you might buy a deinterlacer, a programmable-scan- 
ratc graphics boaitl (such as Commodore's A24 10, Dig- 
ital Miei'oniis" Resolver, or Progressive Peripherals' 
Rambrandl), or GYP's dual-scan-rale IY-24, you should 
purchase a multisync (or multiscanning) monitor. 

Fn si developed by NEC. multisync monitors can syn- 
chronize with a range of frequencies. Study the spec 
sheets carelullv before von buv. however. Some newer 



muliiscauning monitors are designed lor transition be- 
tween IBM's VGA and SVGA modes and do not scan 
below 30 KHz. Similarly, some EGA-to-VGA monitors 
may not scan below 20 KH/.. If you intend to use your 
monitor with 15.75 KHz Amiga modes, avoid these. 
Muliiscanning monitors, while good for covering all 
your bases, are more expensive than fixed-frequency 
monitors (more on prices later). 

Better Resolution? 

The second major consideration is resolution, and here 
what a iiv»\mir ointiol do is as important as what it can. 
A picture's resolution is determined by the mode in 
which it was created and saved — not by the monitor 
that displays it. If you create a 320x200 lo-res picture, 
its resolution will not improve by a factor of 16 when 
you output it to a monitor capable of resolutions up to 

1 280x800. The 320x200 graphic does not contain the 
required information for a 1280x800 display. The im- 



Look Sharp 

The factors thai differentiate a top-of- 

the-linc monitor from a fuzzy, grainy 
headache inducer are dot pilch, color 
convergence, linearity, pincushion (or 
barrel) distortion, keystone distortion, 
focus, high-voltage regulation, and col- 
or balance and tracking. Let's consider 
these attributes one at a time. 

The inside ofa monitor's screen is cov- 
ered with myriad groups of vvd, green, 
and blue phosphors. To produce an im- 
age, the monitor's electron beams are 
fired across these dots, turning [hem into 
points of colored light. The colors you 
sec on screen are determined by the rel- 
ative strength of the various beams. If 
they are of equal strength, all three phos- 
phors light up, creating a white dot; if 
only the red beam is bred, only the red 
phosphors will light up. and so on. 

Dot pilch measures the distance in 



millimeters between like colors of these 
RGB niads. The lower the dot pitch 
(,25mm is the best currently available), 
the belter such line detail as text will 
look. High dot pitch (,52mm is about 
ibe maximum) gives a grainy display. 
For the best picture on 12- and 1-1-inch 
monitors, dot pitch should be .28mm 
or less; for 16-inch or larger monitors, 
look for a dot pitch of. 31 mm — or less 
if vim plan on working frequently in 
such super-high resolutions as 12<S0x 
1024. Commodore's 1084S and 1950 
have dot pitches of. 42mm and .31mm, 
respectively. 

Related to dot pitch, color conver- 
gence describes how closely the red, 
green, and blue electron guns combine 
on a given spol to create a white line or 
point. If they do not converge as closely 
as they should, vim will see a colored 



Figure 1. A white 
grid with dots helps 
you identify prob- 
lems with linearity, 
pincushioning, 
keystoning, color 
convergence, 
and focus. 



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fringe along the white. The best test for 
this phenomenon is to display and ex- 
amine a grid ol single-pixel while lines, 
white dots, or both (see figure 1). Un- 
fortunately, most monitors do not let 
you adjust wfiites to be whiter. 

You can, however, adjust a monitor's 
linearity, the accuracy and consistency of 
the electronic beams' sweep rate. Elon- 
gated or squashed areas on screen, cs- 
pcciallv visible during scrolling, betrav 
a monitor with poor linearity. With your 
grid pattern on the screen, measure the 
distance between pairs of lines. If you 
notice discrepancies, make sure ihe 
monitor has adjustment controls. 

The same grid will help von spol pin- 
cushion and keystone distort ion, as well. 
Pincushion, or barrel, distortion causes 
vertical or horizontal lines at the edges 
ol l he screen to curve to the shape of a 
barrel or an old pincushion instead of 
running parallel. Keystone distortion is 
similar, except thai the vertical (or hor- 
izontal) lines angle toward each other at 
the top or bottom (left or right) of the 
screen to form the shape of an archway's 
kevstone. Most monitors include con- 
trols to reduce the outward or inward 
bowing and slanting. 

You can probably spot focus problems 
without any test patterns, bill the grid 
and fine text come in handy. Occasion- 
ally, focus can vary from a monitor's cen- 
ter to ils edge. In this case, unless the 
monitor has dynamic focus, which 
changes as the beams shoot across the 
screen, you'll have to compromise be- 
tween the appearance of the center and 
the edge. Be careful if you decide to 



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age quality will improve, however, based on the quality 
of the monitor's display. (For tips on judging display 
quality, see the sidebar "Look Sharp.") 

To understand this, imagine you have an old color 
'IV that displays bleeding colors surrounded by auras, 
lb compound the problem, you cannot gel good re- 
ception of channel 5 because the signal is impaired by 
a nearby mountain. II' you buy a new, top-of-the-line 
TV, sharp crisp colors will replace the bleeding aura, 
but channel 5 will still be static-filled because you re- 
ceive the same informal ion from its mountain-imped- 
ed signal. 

Bigger is Bigger 

The lure of bigger equaling better is strong, but a big- 
ger monitor screen also means a deeper box and a larg- 
er price tag. Monitors with 14-inch screens (measured 
diagonally like a TV) average between 1-1 and 16 inches 
deep, whereas 16-inch screens push the case back an- 



other two to three inches, and 20-inch beauties stretch 
out 20 or more inches. 

Prices increase proportionally, as well. Depending on 
(he quality, a multiscanning 14-inch monitor typically 
runs between S.H50 and S1000, while 16-inch models 
range from SfSOO to S2000. Now hold on to your check- 
book, because prices for 20-inch mulliscan monitors 
start at S2000 and peak at over .$4000. Fixed-frequency 
monitors ol the same sizes cost less on average than 
their multiscanning counterparts. By comparison, 
Commodore's llxcd-frequency I084S oilers a 13-inch 
screen and retails for 5399.95, while the multiscanning 
1950 sports a 14-inch screen and lists at $799, 

Besides your wallet and desk space, what determines 
how big is big enough? 11' you do mostly text-based 
work, a 14-inch screen should suffice. If you're heavily 
involved in graphics, especially hi-res or belter, step up 
loa 16-inch or larger screen. The benefits of 24-bit col- 
or and 1280x1024 resolution are squandered in a 




tweak a monitor's focus, for the adjust- 
ment is usually on or near the high-volt- 
age supply, and you can burn out your 
monitor's phosphors if you tamper with 
it improperly. 

The monitor's high-voltage regula- 
tion determines how well size changes 
are controlled when an image changes 
brightness. For example, if you switch 
the palette of a predominantly dark 
picture to primarily light colors on a 
poorly regulated monitor, the image's 
size blooms. Measuring the box before 
and after you reverse the colors in Fig- 
ure 2 is a good test of performance in 
this area. 

If you use your Amiga for graphics or 
video work, a monitor's color balance 
and tracking are of the utmost impor- 
tance. The best clinical tests are gray and 
color scales (see Figure 3) and standard 
video color bars. Most monitors have a 
pair of controls for each color, called 
high and low, bias and cutoff, or some- 
thing similar. The former adjusts each 
color at maximum brightness, while the 
latter determines the level at which black 
begins for each color. 

While each of these test screens (avail- 
able together as testpatt.lha on BIX) are 
helpful, they give only a partial evalua- 
tion. The best aesthetic test is a sample 
of something you use your monitor for 
most — a piece of your own artwork, a 
sample desktop-publishing page, a 
page of text, or whatever. Are the colors 
true to your vision of the picture? Is the 
detail work or text sharp and distinct? 
Does it look better than what you're 
used to? Don't view the monitors in iso- 



lation, either. Remember, a V\V Beetle 
is better than a bicycle, but a Rolls Royce 
is better still. — LBL 




Figure 2. Reverse 
the colors of the box 
and border to spot 
image bloom. 



Figure 3. Gray, 
red, green, and blue 
scales help you judge 
color purity. 



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smaller screen because the fine details are cramped to- 
gether. For desktop publishing, you need aL least a 1 fl- 
inch screen to legibly display two pages of a document 
side bv side. Opting lor a monochrome unit will save 
you money here. 

Hike along a tape measure when vou shop, because 
the advertised si/.e may describe the physical screen, 
but not the usable display area. While the display on 
the Amiga's 1084S reaches behind the bevel edge on 
all sides, this is not the industry standard. 

On many monitors that are designed for IBM dis- 
play modes, such as VGA, the usable display is sur- 
rounded by a black border up to an inch wide. While 
it may lake some getting used to, the border does offer 
a benefit when you use standard overscan or 2.0's se- 
vere overscan modes: You gain the use of the pixels 
that would be hidden by the bevel on the 1Q84S, giving 
."ou a true 724x480 screen. The border is a problem, 
however, if vou do video work. To match the broadcast 
video format, the border must be hidden behind the 
bevel, unless you like a black box around your cartoons 
and commercials. 

Most monitors do have vertical adjustments that let 
you reclaim the top and bottom holders, but they do 
not possess horizontal counterparts. Those two verti- 
cal inches you gain may be fuzzy or distorted as well, 
because the focus is adjusted for the center of the 
screen. A lew monitors (such as the I'rincelon Graphics 
Systems' Ultra line and the Loop CT1458) have over- 



scan switches that allow your display to fill the screen. 

The Finer Points 

While a monitor's display should be the basis of your 
purchase decision, there are a few "extras" that might 
help you cast the deciding vote between two models of 
equal quality. 

If you plan on changing resolutions frequently, make 
sure the monitor has autosizing — the ability to properly 
size and center the display when you switch screen 
modes. Check to make sure that the adjustment controls 
are easy to access and logically placed. If you cannot see 
the screen while you tweak a setting, bow do you know 
you are improving the display!- Also check to see if the 
screen is treated to reduce glare, and if so, how. An 
etched surface can cast a fuzzy look on images, while 
dark glass or polarizing dim the picture more than oth- 
er methods. A swivel base not only helps to reduce glare, 
but also gives vou more flexibility in positioning. 

Rather than attempt lo tesi every available monitor 
in a lab selling, Amiga World polled your fellow users 
on the major networks and the telephone for recom- 
mendations as to which monitors perform well in daily 
use. See the chart "Suggested Screens" for details on 
12 reader-approved multisync monitors, plus Com- 
modore's 10845. 

Your monitor purchase deserves very serious prior 
consideration, because what you see is what you'll be 
looking at day in and day out for a long time. ■ 



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It is often helpful to begin by looking at items that have 
earned approval from others with similar needs. So here, in 
alphabetical order, are the leading vole-getters for mult isync 
displays among Amiga users, (While Commodore's 1084S 
is not a multiscanuing monitor, we have also included this 
popular RGB/composite unit.) 

All the monitors listeel support autosizing. Two of them 



can also provide a composite display, finally, some units 
allow for both analog and digital RGB displays (noted as 
A/D RGB in the chart). 

Analog mode is preferable for Amiga displays, as it pro- 
vides a greater color range. {Digital RGB is the mode of MS- 
DOS EGA and CGA monitors; the newer VGA screens sup- 
port analog RGB.) 



Manufacturer 



Model 



Price 



Screen 
Size (in.) 



Dimensions (in.) 



Horiz. Sync 
Rate (KHz) 



Dot 
Pitch (mm) 



Input 
Accepted 



Comments 



Commodore 1950 S 799.00 14 14.6x14.2x15.2 15-35 .31 Analog RGB 

Commodore 1084S S 399.95 13 12.6x13.8x15.2 15.73 .42 A/D RGB, Composite 

Loop Technology CT1458 S 369.00 14 15.4x14.4x13.6 15-48 .28 A/D RGB 



Built-in speaker 
No autosizing for 
1024 res.; over- 
scan switch 



Nanao 


9070U 


$1499.00 


16 


17.7x15.8x15.9 


20-50 


.28 


A/D RGB 




NEC 


Multi- 
Sync 3D 


S 699.00 


14 


16x14x14,3 


15.75-38 


.28 


A/D RGB 




NEC 


Multi- 
Sync 4D 


$1149.00 


16 


18.7x15.4x14.5 


30-57 


.28 


Analog RGB 




NEC 


Multi- 
Sync 5D 


S2699.00 


20 


21.5x18.9x18.8 


30-66 


.31 


Analog RGB 





Panasonic 



Panasonic 



Princeton Graphics 

Sony 

Sony 

Sony 



C1381 

Panasync 
C1395 

Panasync 
Ultra 1400 
CPD-1302 
CPD-1304S 
GVM-1310 



S 699.00 14 

S 899.00 14 

$ 899.00 14 

S 999.95 14 

S 999.95 14 

S1295.95 14 



14.4x13.9x14.8 

14.4x13.9x14.8 

15.3x14.1x14.7 
14.6x13.x16.4 
13.9x13.7x16.2 
15x14.25x16.25 



30-37 

30-57 

15-36.5 
15.75-36 

28-57 
15.75-36 



.28 

.28 

.28 
.25 
.25 



Analog RGB 

Analog RGB 

A/D RGB 
A/D RGB 

Analog RGB 



Overscan switch 



.25 A/D RGB, Composite Built-in speaker 



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puts the Toaster's new 2.0 upgrade through its paces 

and pronounces the results a major — 

and very impressive — success, 



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II June 1992 



AMIGAWORLD FEATURE REVIEW 




Video Toaster 




WHEN THE M UCH-delayed Video Toaster was finally 
released in October 1990, it was quickly heralded as a 
breakthrough iti video technology — and with good rea- 
son. Ii really was a milestone in the development of 
desktop-video hardware and software. From its broad 
array of digital video effects to the 3-D animation pow- 
er of LightW'avc 3D, the 'toaster proved il was well 
worth (he long wait. 

Now, a year and a half later, NewTek has shipped an 
upgrade to the original software. The Video Toaster 
2.0 (S2495; $395 For the software upgrade only) is a 
major enhancement of the first, release, and il is as im- 
pressive in its own right as the Toaster itself was when 
first introduced. No new hardware is required: The new 
software works with the original Video Toaster card. In 
this article, we will take a look at that new software, fo- 
cusing mainly on the features new to 2.0. (See "Amiga 
Video: Done' to a T," Oct. '90, p. 20, and the "Re- 
views" section, Jul. '91, p. 86, for more on the original 
release of the Video loaster.) 

If you thought there were a lot of disks in the original 
Video Toaster package, you had better hold on to your 
socks. Toaster 2.0 ships on a total of 14 disks, possibly 
the largest integrated software package yet seen on the 
Amiga. And if that isn't enough to impress vou, wait un- 
til you begin to install it. Just about all of the disks con- 



tain compressed information, so that the total content 
is much larger then the 14 disks would imply. In fact, 
you need more than 40 megabytes of free hard-disk 
space to install the Toaster 2.0 package. Pan of that 
space is used by some temporary files during installa- 
tion, but even after those are deleted by the installation 
software, the final upgrade is more than 30 megabytes. 
Obviously, while the Toaster oilers a lot of options, 
it isn't the executable program code that takes up so 
much space. Rather, 2.0's vast si/.c results from the in- 
clusion of many new digital video effects, more colored 
fonts for the character generator, and more detailed 3- 
D objects for LightWave. Nevertheless, almost without 
exception, every software module in the Video Toaster 
package has also been enhanced. 

Switcher 

Using the Toaster's Switcher, 1 .0 users were treated to 
a host of complex transitions known as digital video 
effects (DVEs) available from four DVE banks. The 2.0 
version lays on an entire array of new DVEs, resulting 
in the addition of two new banks to the Switcher in- 
terface. Most of these new effects fall into five major 
categories based on the subject or style of the transi- 
tion, with many of them being animated key eifects 
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My personal favorites are the Organic effects. These 
transitions simulate the motion of things found in the 
natural world and would be nearly impossible to repro- 
duce Oil Other switchers (at least in any switcher even 
remotely comparable to the Toaster in price). These in- 
clude effects such as smoke, lire, [joining water, and 
clouds. The transitions are very smooth, almost ele- 
gant, and my feeling is that these will be used more 
often than any of the other new effects. 

Another group likely to receive attention are the Ac- 
tion effects. Most of these are sports-oriented, using an- 
imated scenes from various Sporting events as transi- 
tions from one scene to another. There are basketball, 
baseball, football, golf, tennis, and even weight-lifting 
transitions. (See Figure 1, bottom row, for a sample 
transition.) Other action scenarios besides sports are 
available, such as a flight over a city skyline. 

A smaller, bin slill very important new category in- 
cludes the Positional elT'ecis. You can position the start- 
ing points of these effects with the mouse, While vou 
can use these only with a small number of the DYKs. 
they are nevertheless a welcome addition. Perhaps the 
best use of these will be in the traditional "over-thc- 
shoulder" window employed by television news shows. 
While available in the Toaster 1.0 software, this effect 
was not easily accomplished; but now, with the ability 
to use the mouse to accurately position the effect, the 
task becomes a breeze. 

Somewhat less useful — and perhaps objectionable in 
some quarters — are the "Kiki" effects, which will no 
doubt prove popular with some Toaster fans. Using the 
well-known NewTek product demonstrator for -whom 
they are named as an animated transition, you can 
"spice up" your video with twirling bodies, slinky legs. 
or other similar effects. 

The last of the new effects are tailed Warp effects. 
These are more 3-D-stvlc transitions, with one video 
source being "wrapped" onto the surface of geometric 
shapes such as planes, cubes, and spheres. (See Figure 
1, lop row, for an example of the "cube" effect.) 



Some of the new effects, however, defy' easy catago- 
rizing. I mean, where would you place turning gears, 
turning pages, tearing pages, puzzles, windshield 
wipers, clapboards, video snow, dripping blood, break- 
ing glass, arrows, hearts, a closing iris, a countdown, 
animated colorbars, old film, or even falling sheep? 
(Yes, falling sheep: but don't ask me why!) 

In addition, of course, you will find a variety of ef- 
fects from the first release. These include various wipes, 
scrolls, pushes, slides, and myriad other geometric ef- 
fects and transitions. 

Many of the new effects can take advantage of some 
other new features found in the Switcher. One of these 
is the ability to perform soft-edged wipes that lend a 
kind of smooth, anlialiased look and feel to transitions. 

Another important new feature, called "fade partial 
transitions," allows you to start an effect, halt it some- 
where before completion, and then fade it in or out. 
An obvious application of this is for the "over-the- 
shoulder" shots mentioned previously, but 1 have also 
used it with split screens that are faded in and out. Un- 
fortunately, this partial fading works with only some of 
the new effects. 

While the DVEs are the sexy new additions to the 
Switcher, there is a lot more going on behind the 
scenes. For example, one problem with the early soft- 
ware was the "zipper effect" that manifested itselfwhen 
you grabbed frames. The "zipper" is a band of about 
.'SI pixels that runs down the far right side of the frame- 
store. According to the new documentation, the han- 
dling of image edges in the extreme overscan area has 
now been improved: in fact, when I grabbed a frame 
and looked at it in ToasterPaint, the zipper effect was 
nowhere to be seen. Just to make sure it wasn't merely 
being bidden by ToasterPaint. I loaded the grabbed 
frame into Impulse's Light'24 and displayed it on the 
firecracker. Again, there was no sign of the zipper. 

Another welcome addition to the Switcher is the in- 
clusion of proprietary compression for framcslores. De- 
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caii result in significant savings in hard-disk space. 
Also, you can load framestores somewhat faster than 
with the earlier version. (You must save framestores 
from TTaint in order to compress them.) 

If there remains any weakness in the Toaster DVEs, 
you will see it manifested in those DVEs that compress 
lhe video image. Depending on the effect and the de- 
gree of compression, such effects may appear pix- 
elized, especially when the transition occurs too slowly. 
Even these effects, however, when executed at a reason- 
able speed, remain useful for many video applications. 

CG, ChromaF/X, and ToasterPaint 

One of the Video Toaster's strong suits lias always been 
that you get a full-function character generator (CG) 
along with all the other video components. (A CG is 
used to create titles and other textual messages that can 
be overlaycd onto static backgrounds or incoming 
video.) The 2.0 Video Toaster CG adds a number of 
new enhancements. More fonts, including several new 
colored fonts, are included, bringing the number of 
different laces supplied — in a variety of point sizes — up 
to 34. Many of these were designed by Kara Computer 
Graphics, a company with a well-deserved reputation 
for high-quality fonts. 

Also new in Toaster 2.0 is the ability to render text 
on top of existing framestores, allowing you to use any 
24-bil image as a background for text. You can scroll 
and crawl text over the backgrounds (and control the 
speed of such operations). You can also render the 
fonts that use the crawl or scroll options in both outline 
and drop-shadow formats. 

For me, the single most important addition to the CG 
is the ability to import ASCII text files created with a 
word processor or text editor. I have never been very 
fond of the Toaster's CG editor, and although simple 
pages ol text are casv enough to generate. 1 didn't fancy 
using it for long text sequences. Now I don't have to. 

There are also quite a few enhancements to the 
Video Toaster's ChromaF/X module. ChromaF/X al- 



lows you to modify the incoming colors of a video sig- 
nal based on its brightness levels. It recognizes 96 dif- 
ferent levels of luminance and can apply different color 
maps based on those values. 

ChromaF/X now has more than SO different prede- 
fined chromatic effects, so you can quickly experiment 
with them (or create your own). The predefined effects 
include, for example, Line Art, Nuke, Posterize, 
Chrome, Snow, Zebra Stripes, Soft Rainbows, and 
Sepia lone. You can combine these with some ol the 
Switcher's DVEs to create some very interesting effects. 
For instance, SepiaTone works well with the Film DYE, 
giving the incoming video an old-fashioned, ilickcry 
look. Others are far more exotic and defy easy defini- 
tion or suggestions for use, although I am sure creative 
videographers will find applications for them. 

Also new to Toaster 2.0 is the ability to select Chro- 
maF/Xs from within the DVE banks. Using the Switch- 
er, you can select from the effects banks up to four color 
effects chosen from tfie ChromaF/X module, and apply 
them to your video signals. 

While ToasterPaint has received few new additions 
in Toaster 2.0, the new version does allow you to use 
ToasterPaint images as backgrounds for the CG to ren- 
der onto. You can also now grab frames from within 
ToasterPaint (instead of having to grab them with the 
Switcher), save them to disk, and then load them into 
ToasterPaint for editing. Finally, vou can scroll a virtual 
(larger-than-screcn-si/.c) image in ToasterPaint much 
faster than vou could with 1.0. 

LightWave 3D 

Of all the Toaster's software modules, LightWave 3D 
sports the largest number ol" changes and enhance- 
ments. With all its new features, LightWave can now be 
considered as a world-class animation system, compa- 
rable to professional packages on other platforms that 
cost far more then the Video loaster. 

The single most important new option in LightWave 
2.0 is ray tracing. While a number of the more popular 




Figure 1. 
Two examples of 
new DVEs (digital 
video effects) available 
from the Toaster 2.0':. 
Switcher, The "cube" 
transition (top row) 
Is one of the new 
Warp effects, while 
the "golf" transition 
(bottom row) typifies 
the sports-oriented 
new Action 
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3-D programs on the Amiga have offered ray tracing 
for some time, previous versions of LightWave did not. 
(Although object shadows were possible, they were not 
real rav-t raced shadows.) Now, however, you can exer- 
cise selective control over ray-traced reflection, refrac- 
tion, and shadows. (The image created for the illustra- 
tion on the opening page of this article demonstrates 
manv of LightWavc's new ray-tracing features. Sec the 
note at the end of the article lor more on how the im- 
age was created.) 

Reflection is responsible for the traditional mirror 
surfaces that most people associate with ray tracing, but 
LightWave offers a variable level of reflection. This 
means surfaces can be only partially reflective and still 
retain other textural attributes, such as color, image 
maps, and other characteristics resulting from proce- 
dural textures (marble, stone, wood, and so forth) gen- 
erated within LightWave. For example, consider a desk 
with a wood-surface texture. By giving it a partial-re- 
flection setting, say 15%, you get what appears to be a 
highly polished wooden surface that slightly reflects 
nearby objects. 

Refraction defines how light will behave as it passes 
through a transparent (or semitransparent) object. 
LightWave allows you to define the index of refraction 
of an object, which means you can use it to create a 
wide range of transparent material — anything from air 
or water to diamond or lead crystal. The degree of 
transparency is user-definable, as is the index of refrac- 
tion, enabling you to create an almost unlimited num- 
ber of transparent materials. 

.As stated, you can control individually each of the 
three ray-trace options — shadow, reflection, and re- 
fraction. For example, it is possible to turn on refrac- 
tion and leave shadow and reflection oil". This helps 
speed up image rendering by eliminating unnecessary 
calculations. 

Also, only those objects with ray-trace features (shad- 
ows, reflection, and/or refraction) are actually calculat- 
ed as such when you render. Imagine a scene in which 
you have a crystal ball on a table. If you define the ball 
to have a refraction index of crystal but leave every- 
thing else to be generated using normal surfaces, when 
the- image is rendered, only the ball object will fie sub- 
ject to the time-intensive calculations necessary to cre- 
ate the impression of crystal; Again, this can save you 
a great deal of time — something you will appreciate, 
because ray tracing is a notoriously slow process. 

Another significant addition to LightWave is the abil- 
ity to morph multiple objects. Previous versions al- 
lowed only a one-lo-one morph effect, meaning object 
A could morph to object B over a defined number of 
frames. Now you can chain morph up to 16 different 
objects. Object A can morph to object B over x frames, 
then to object C over y frames, and then on to object 
D over z frames. This feature will go a long way toward 
creating effective character-style animation. 

Adding to LightWavc's usefulness is the ability to ac- 
cept more object formats. Previous versions would load 
both Videoscapc/l.ightWave and Sculpt formats, but 
now vou can also directly load Wave-front, Swivel 3D, 
and AutoCAD DXF format objects. I was surprised, 
however, to see that Impulse's popular Imagine and 
Turbo Silver formats were not included. But with Syn- 
desis (of Interchange fame) creating the LightWave ob- 
ject loaders for Newtek, it is likely that additional ob- 



ject loaders will be made available in the future. 

Rendering resolutions have also been improved. 
There are now five resolutions available, including a 
new ullra-high-resolution mode that creates the images 
at 8008x1920 pixels. While these cannot be displayed 
directly on screen, you can save the image (ile to disk 
and then dump it to film or print it. 

LightWave now has a larger capacity for 3-D objects. 
It will load (if vou have enough memory) 65,000 points 
or polygons in a single scene. This capability is user- 
configurable, so vou can set the amount of memory vou 
need and still leave the rest free for otherToaster mod- 
ules to use. 

You can now also load and save surface textures, 
which makes it easv to create a library of custom tex- 
tures. And you can now automatically size image maps 
to fit. which is a real time saver. Spline-motion control 
is available for both acceleration and deceleration of 
moving objects. Image maps can be aiitialiased, which 
gets rid of annoying (and unprofessional) flicker when 
the textured object is seen at a distance. Pixel blending 
is also available to smooth the pixels of image maps 
that get so close to the camera that individual pixels 
become distinct. There are several new procedural tex- 
tures available, such as Underwater and Dots, plus an 
improved Wood. Bump mapping has been enhanced. 
with user-definable amplitudes now an option, and the 
fog effect has been improved, too. 

LightWave will now load Toaster framestores as well 
as IFF images, an important lime saver if you plan on 
mapping frame-grabbed video sequences onto objects 
(eliminating the step ofloading framestores and saving 
them as IFF files). You can also clear individual lights 
from a scene, as well as objects and images. In addition, 
you can save all the objects in a scene at once, instead 
of one at a lime, and you can also load objects from a 
scene on disk. 

About the only thing missing that I expected to see 
in the new LightWave is texture morphing. This would 
have allowed the surface attributes of an object to 
morph along with its shape. Although the feature is 
mentioned in the manual, apparently it did not make 
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Light Table 
Animation 



ONE OF THE traditional tools of the 
animator is the tight table, a glass 
drawing platform over a difliise light 
source. This allows one drawing to 
show through another as a guide. This 
column will explore freehand anima- 
tion in DeluxePaint IV (Electronic 
Arts), with special emphasis on its new 
Light Table feature. 

To follow this tutorial, use the 320x 
400 screen format if you have en- 
hanced chip RAM. If you have only 
5 1 2K of chip RAM, you may need to 
work at 320x200 to make use of all 
Light Table features. Build a palette 
using several families of colors contain- 
ing light, medium, and dark tones to 
allow for painting shadows and high- 
lights. Begin by creating a background 
such as the cartoon landscape in the 
accompanying illustration. Save this as 
your spare screen and press the j key to 
move to the other screen. 

Building Character 

Now you need a cartoon character to 
animate. If you have trouble coming 
up with ideas, or just want to learn 
more about animation basics, look for 
Preston Blair's Animation, one of the 
inexpensive Walter Foster art books 
that you can find almost everywhere. I 
referred to one of Blair's characters to 
draw the elephant in my illustration. 
For a more in-depth look at animation, 
read Disney Animation: The Illusion of 
Life by Johnston and Thomas. 

Use a medium-value color and a 
single-pixel brush to do a rough sketch 
of your character. With this as a guide, 
use a contrasting color to do a finished 
line drawing right over the sketch. Use 
the Freehand Line tool, closing shapes 
so they can be colored later with the 
Fill tool. When you are finished, make 
a stencil to lock the final line color, and 
then clear the screen to remove all 



extraneous sketch lines. This is your 
first key frame. 

The concept of key frames and in- 
betweens involves drawing a beginning 
and end position for one movement a 
character will make. These are the key 
frames. In-betweens are the frames 
drawn between these keys to create the 
illusion of smooth motion from one 
position to the other. Before you can 
"tween," you need to create a second 
key frame. The Light Table makes this 
process easy. 

For the freehand animator, DPaint 
rVs new Animation Control panel is a 
good interface to the main operations. 
Pressing the Alt-a keyboard combina- 
tion brings up the panel at the bottom 
of the screen — as shown in the illustra- 
tion on the facing page. To turn on the 
Light Table, select the "lightbulb" icon 
or press the I key. Your screen should 
dim when it comes on. If it does not, 
press Alt-1 to toggle the dimmer on 
and off. Next, click the + symbol on 
the control panel to add a frame. You 
should now be on frame 2. Clear the 
screen by selecting Current Frame from 
the Clear requester. 

To use the first key frame as a refer- 
ence, click the P button on the control 
panel. This shows the previous frame 
dimmed as a reference. Use the first 
drawing as a guide to make a new 
position for the second key frame. In 
drawing key frames, it might help to 
see the background image under your 
drawing. To try this, click the S button 
on the control panel. 

"Tween" Tricks 

You are now on frame 2 of an anima- 
tion consisting of your two key frames. 
Tweening will bring life to your char- 
acter. Use the control-panel slider to 
go back to frame 1. Click + to dupli- 
cate that frame, which puts you on 
frame 2 of three. Clear the Current 
Frame. On the control panel, turn on 
N and P — Next and Previous frames. 
Be sure the dimmer is on. You should 
now see the two key frames, dimmed 
but visible. If you don't, check to make 
sure that your right mouse-button 



52 June 1992 



Mastering the basics of DPaint IV's new Light Table feature will make 
animating a whole lot easier and more fun. 



color, the background color, matches 
the background color (let's call it the 
"paper" color) that you used in your 
key Frames. 

Create frame 2 by carefully drawing 
a new position midway between the 
lines of the key frames — hence the 
term "tweening." If you have trouble 
distinguishing the lines of the P frame 
from those of the K, here is a trick. 
Use BG>FG in the Color menu to 
change the lines of the P frame to a 
color different from that of N. With the 
dimmer on, each image will then be 
distinguishable as a reference for draw- 
ing your in-between frame. 

Change the line color of all frames 
to a consistent color when you arc 
finished. To accomplish this, Stencil- 
lock the "paper" color, choose the 
desired line color with the right mouse 
button, and clear all frames. Remem- 
ber, however, to save your animation 
before Hying this. 

Ping-pong the animation to test your 
motion, f'he more in-betweens you 
draw, the smoother the motion will be. 
For example, go to frame 3, add a 
frame, and clear it. Go to frame 1 and 
do the same thing. You now have a 
five-frame animation, with frames 2 
and 1 blank for tweening. 

The P and N buttons always let you 
see the frames on cither side as refer- 
ence for drawing each tween. lb get an 
idea of the final look, try stepping 
through the sequence with tile spare 
screen showing and the dimmer oft". 
This outline animation is called a pen- 
cil test. (See "Accent on Graphics," 
#13, Mar. "90, p. 56, for more informa- 
tion on pencil tests.) 

Color the outline animation with 
the Fill tool, frame by frame. Lay in 
the base color first (it is medium gray 
in my elephant example). L'sing the 
Filled Freehand tool, give dimension 
to your character by adding shadows 
and highlights. Be sure to stencil-lock 
the- line and background colors to 
protect them. 




Now draw loose shapes on the char- 
acter in darker and lighter values as 
in the illustration. When the colored 
animation is finished, turn off the 
Light Table and use Merge in Hack 
from the Spare menu to put the back- 
ground behind your animation. As a 
precaution, test one frame first with 
Merge from the Anim menu. Once 
you master these basic techniques, 
endless fun awaits vou at the "Light 
'Fable." ■ 

Joel Hagetl'i credits include work in art, 
astronomy, science fiction, and software 
development Write to him at 10512 
Sawyer; Oakdale, CA 95361 . Please 
include a stamped, self-addressed envelope 
for a reply. 



This is frame 3 of the 
DPaint IV Light Table tutorial, 
finished and merged with the 
background. DPaint's Animation 
Control panel is shown at the 
bottom of the screen. 




AmigaWorld 53 




Sync: The "House" 
Advantage 

For the proper timing of ail your system's components, you 
need to create a "house sync" with a sync generator. 



By Paulo de Andrade 



BEFORE YOU CAN begin to enjoy 
the pleasures of putting together great 
visual presentations in your Amiga 
video productions, you will unfortu- 
nately have to master some of the 
unavoidable — and often confusing — 
technical aspects of the work. Of these, 
one of the more crucial is sync. 

Basicallv, there are two forms of sync 
in the composite video signal: horizon- 
tal and vertical. Sync is essential in 
ensuring that images display correctly 
on TV monitors and that two or more 
video components can be used at the 
same time to perform transitions or 
effects. Put another way, sync is needed 
to "time" the system. 

By way of analogy, imagine a train 
moving slowly with all of its doors 
open. To jump aboard, you would start 
running alongside and try to achieve 
the same speed as the train. If done 
properly, you can jump right in a door, 
but if you run slower or faster than the 
train, the chances are you will hit the 
side of the car. not the door. Sync 
works in a similar way. If the two video- 
tape recorders (\TRs) are out of sync, 
you will be unable to perform any 
transition between them. The video 
signals simply will not match, causing 
great distortion in the image. 

The same is true when you use a 
switcher such as NewTeh's. Video Toast- 
er, ff it is not timed to (he \TRs, you 
can't execute any effect. Also, if you 
have an external edit controller, it 
might not be able to perform accurate- 
ly if not timed to the rest of the system. 

Dedicated Sync Generators 

There are many ways to time a system. 
While many video components have 



internal svnc generators, the most 
common and reliable method of timing 
is to use a dedicated sync generator to 
create what is called the "house sync." 
Basically, this is the signal used to time 
all video components in a system. 

Quality svnc generators used to be 
quite expensive. But with the introduc- 
tion of the Video Toaster two years ago, 
and the widening popularity of desk- 
lop video in general on all computer 
platforms, you can now find good sync 
generators at very reasonable prices. 

(To locale vendors of the products, men- 
tioned, see the "Mcmujacturvrs'/Distribur 
tors' Addresses" list on p. 102.) 

An excellent unit for Amiga users is 
the Horita CSG-50 ($379). It generates 
4V (volt) composite sync, a 15-MHz 
frame-timing signal, and composite 
video (the most common source of 
sync). Composite video contains the 
picture's black-and-white information, 
color information, timing information 
(horizontal and vertical sync), and 
blanking. The 4V composite sync, on 
the other hand, does not provide lumi- 
nance, chrominance, or blanking. 

The CSG-50, however, does much 
more than generate perfect sync. It 
also produces black video and two 
types of color bars — full-field and 
SMPTE. The color bars generated by 
the CSG are better than those pro- 
duced by the Video Toaster, and should 
therefore be used instead. As an added 
convenience for those striping time 
code or control track to tape, the CSG- 
50 comes with a built-in timer that can 
automatically switch the video output 
from color bars to color black after 
either 30 or 60 seconds. This is a very 
useful feature for producing tape lead- 



ers, because you do not have to edit or 
switch sources manually. The CSG-50 is 
also small, taking up little desk space. 

Proper Connections 

Even though you can daisy-chain the 
sync signal by using loop-lhroughs in 
the equipment or T connectors, the 
best way to use a sync generator for 
house sync is to distribute its signal via 
a distribution amplifier (DA). Basically, 
a DA takes one input and converts it 
into many outputs without signal loss. 
Most major video equipment manufac- 
turers also make distribution amplifiers. 

Figure 1 shows a typical house-sync 
setup, witlt the Video Toaster as the 
switcher. The composite video output 
from the sync generator goes into the 
DA, which splits and feeds it to a num- 
ber of outputs — the VTRs, the edit 
controller, and input 1 of the Toaster. 
The illustration shows the sync signal 
connected directly to the VTRs, because 
most of today's professional VTRs come 
with built-in time-base correctors 
(TBCs). If you use external TBCs, the 
sync signal should be connected instead 
to their equivalent inputs. 

If you use an external single-frame 
controller, such as the V-LAN (Video- 
media), or another switcher, you should 
also connect the sync signal to the 
respective inputs. In fact, any video 
component in the system should be 
timed to the house sync. You may find 
that the svnc inputs on various ma- 
chines have different names, such as 
Ref Video. Ref In, ami Genlock, but 
they all mean the same thing. 

The sync signal should be connected 
to input 1 of the Video Toaster, because 
this is the input that the Toaster uses to i 



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Lime ail [he signals to. If vou connect 
the sync generator to any other input, 
yon will not be able to time your system 
correctly. Additionally, by using the 
CSG-:">0 you will always have black or 
( iilni bars at youi disposal on input I . 
You can then change the background 
color in Toaster Preferences to any 
other color and still have black avail- 
able when you need it. 

It is important that you use cables of 
the same length to connect all compo- 
nents to the house sync. Dillerences in 
cable length usually result in liming 
differences, especially if the cables are 
long. Also, make sure you use quality 
cables for sync, just as you would for 
the video connections. Bad cables may 
have poor shielding that could intro- 
duce interference in the sync signal. 

Notice in Figure 1 that the recorder 
YTR is not connected to the house 
sync. The reason for this is that the 
recorder usually gets its sync informa- 
tion from the video source. Since all 
sources are in sync, the recorder will 



receive perfectly timed signals. Once 
all the units are timed to house sync, 
vou can perform anv transition among 
them without a glitch. 

figure 2 shows the video-signal con- 
nections in the system discussed above. 

Another thing to keep in mind is 
that the signal coming from the sync 
generator should be terminated at its 
destination. If you are using the daisy- 
chain method, the termination should 
be at the final component If you are 
using a distribution amplifier, all units 
should be terminated. 

Most video equipment has an inter- 
nal terminator that vou can connect 
and disconnect by way of a switch. If 
your equipment is not so furnished, 
you can buy an inexpensive external 
7")-ohm terminator to do the job. On 
the other hand, some units even have 
automatic or full-lime termination, 
Check the manuals to make sure you 
are making the proper connections. 

One last point to consider here is tha't 
you are likely to encounter situations in 



Figure 1. A typical 
"house-sync" set- 
up, using the Video 
Toaster as the 
switcher. 



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TSP27: Octa-MED This remarkable program doubles 
the sound capabilities ol your Amiga from 4 channels of 
audio to 8! Almosl completely identical to MED. this is a 
truly remarkable program. 

TSP26-. Directory Utilities Contains all of the best 
public domain and shareware file and disk utilities avail- 
able for the Amiga, including UtifMaster, FileMan, 
M2DU. Sid and DirMaster. 

TSP25: SpaceGames Contains MoonBase a very 
graphically detailed lunar-lander game, SpaceWar-a 
two player (either in person or over the modem) space 
battle. Nebula is a 3D world you must defend-definitely 
commercial quality. 

TSP24: Printing Utilities This disk contains a very 
nice Banner maker that will use any AmigaDOS font 
with lull-color printing. RobsLabelCreator will allow 
easy creating of labels for your diskettes. PrinlStudio 
allows easy printing of text/graphic images with total 
control over page numbering/titting. etc. 
TSP23: Tobias Star Trek A graphic space adventure 
where you're the captain of your own starship. Travel 



through the universe, stop the Rornulans and Ktingons 
and complete your missions. 

TSP22: 3D Objects This disk contains 18different vec- 
tor objects for use with Sculpt and Imagine. Some of 
the objects include: train engine, synthesizer keyboard. 
Amiga 3000. space station. 

TSP21: Disk Duplicators This disk contains all the 
best utilities to backup diskettes. Included are XCopylll 
and NJlfi which will backup copy-prolecl programs. Also 
includes SuoerDuper which is an Incredibly fast 
AmigaDOS copier. Freecoov will remove copy protec- 
tion from many popular commercial programs. 




Interferon, featured on - TSP13 



TSP20: Board Games Includes Checkers. Dominoes. 
Clue. Jeopard and Monopoly Throw away your dice 
and let your Amiga take care of the details., hours and 
hours of family fun! 

TSP19: PacMan Classics Contains Mazeman. Zonix 
and PacMan87-all great implementations of the ori- 
ginal arcade classic. 

TSP18: MS-DOS Emulation Contains PCTask and 
IBeM, two shareware IBM-MS Dos emulators for your 
Amiga. Also included are utilities to allow Amiga drives 
to read/write 720K format MS-DOS disks- Mullidos and 
M3H- 

TSP17: Printer Drivers This disk contains over 70 
printer drivers for many popular printers. 
TSP16: Telecommunication This disk contains two 
first-class modem programs. NComm and Access . This 
disk is for the beginner or expert telecommunicator. fea- 
turing all the popular communication protocols, includ- 
ing X, Y and Z-Modem. NComm has very advanced 
script capabilities for performing automated log-ins. 
downloads and uploads. 

TSP15: MED This disk contains the premier music 
package, MED (Musical EDilor). It will allow you to use 
digitized sound samples as your instruments and use 
them in your own songs. Its tremendous editing power 
makes MED more of a musical word-processor. An 
extremely well-done program. Many commercial soft- 
ware companies use this package to create sound- 
tracks for their entertainment programs, 




TSP14; Plotters This disk contains several of the best 
mathematical plotting programs avaiiable for the Amiga. 
Includes AmigaPlot-a 3-dimensional mathematical 
function plotter (pictured). Aplot2.0. and PlotXY 
TSP13: Tetris Games This disk contains 6 flavors of 
the classic game "Tetris.' Some have artificial intelli- 
gence, others a variety of ptay-styles'skill levels/number 
of players. 



TSP12: CllpArl This disk contains several excellent 
bitmapped images for use in Desktop Publishing or 
similar programs. 
TSP11: Operation Desert Storm: This is a complete 
Hyperbook-typo application that will take you through i 
guided tour of the recent conflict in The Gull. 
TSP10: Fractals Scenery (pictured) will create realistic 
fractal landscapes. Genesis allows the creation of vari- 
ous landscapes with user-definable levels of complexity. 
Also included are various Mandelbrot generators, 
including TMandel, Mandel-Mountains and FracGen. 
TSP9: Utilities #1 IconMeister — an Icon editor with a 
complete set of editing/painting tools. TJPormat - 
disk formatting program that will format disks that 
AmigaDOS wont. ChartMaster — a graphing tool that 
allows you to generate and save different graphs in IFF 
formal. GraphSD lets you visualize complex data in 3-D 
and save the results. StructGen lets you creatB gad- 
gets, text, bHmaps and window structures and llie pro- 
gram will automagically write the "C" source code for 
you. LabelMaker is a very easy to use. lull featured 
label printer. DoublePrint fascilitates printing of lexl files 
on both sides of paper. 
TSP8: CI I part Black & White and colorful clipart for a 
variety of needs including desktop publishing/video. 
People, holiday refated, school items, scrolls, food, 
monsters, lish, lobsters, symbols and lots more. 
TSP7: 3D Vector Objects #2 Books. Early American 
telephone, barrels, gun, spaceships, lamps, trombone, 
bugle, skateboard, Lego-Rover, remote control, glider 
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TSP6: 3D Vector Objects #1 Lamp, mirror, bed, chair, 
fire hydrant, lamp post, street lamp, street sign, traffic 
light, cannon, cannon supplies, rose, fork, spoon, knife 
and plate. All objects in Sculpt format. 
TSP5r Games 3 CrossCircuit is a one or two-player 
action/logic game that requires fast reflexes. 
WordSearch will allow you to generale your own word 
search puzzles. In Drug Busters you rid the streets of 
cigarettes, alcohol, pills and needles. In Cinco you Iry 
to get five X's in a row before your opponent. 
ColorLopfc is an excellent MasterMind type game. 
TSP4: Games 2 Dyno-Wars — a strategic checker- 
style game. Kooties — assemble a bug before the com- 
puter beats you to it. BlockBuster is a colorful, well 
done Tetris-type game. Warrior is a fun shool'em-up 
adventure game. MieroMan is a graphic maze game 
played with a joystick. Battle the computer's armies to 
take over the planet in Circe. 
TSP3: Games 1 Crystal Caverns is an adventure 
game with randomly generated worlds--you'll never 
trash the same world twice! Pot2Dot is an adaptation of 
the classic £-player connect-the-dot game. 
Pizza DelivervMan has you running through the streets 
to get those pies to your customers. TinvBall is the 
world's smallest baseball game. Surround- Cycles is a 
high-speed arcade game, based on the light cycle races 
from the Disney movie Tron. 
TSP2: Sounds Animal sounds, musical instruments 
and many, many more — 43 sound samples in all! 
TSPf: Maps of USA, Canada and Europe Hi-Res 
IFF brushes of all 50 US States, 10 Canadian Provinces 
and countries in Europe. Each map has a 3D extrusion 



affect with cast shadow. 

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create your own challenging worlds to conquer. This 
game is quite similar to Arkanoid and allows two players 
with stereo sound and 5 soundtracks' Special RK price, 
$14.95 

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record any mouse click or keypress and play it back as 
a macro at any time, inside any program. Also provides 
memory inlCclock, alarm, screen blanker, mouse accel- 
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Special RK price $14.95. 

TC33; Measures 1 ,0 is an incredibly useful utility that 
will convert any type of measurement to another. 
DjsM.aMLcr is a database designed lot storing and 
printing 3." disk labels. Jewels is a Tetris-esque game 
of action and strategy. Switch is a fun board-game. 
Gfxelipoer witt allow you to grab any screen and save it 
as an IFF picture. Softball Manager is a database for 
storing stats for Softball — any number of leagues may 
be tracked. WBExec allows you to execute CLl com- 
mands from within the Workbench. Several Clipart 
images are also included. 




AmigaPlot featured on - TSP10 



TC32: Computer Coloring Book is a delightful program 
for children of all ages — comes with 15 pages of pic- 
tures to color again and again. Ljstmaker lets you 
make, edit, combine and print lists of words — great for 
those spelling testsl Moresmoolh! scrolls text files 
smoothly on the screen and allows easy printing. 
Pocket Billiards lets you choose from several of the 
most popular pool games with realistic action. Texture 
allows you to create, manipulate and save (in standard 
IFF format) realistic fractal textured surfaces. Elagus is 
a monster maze game. Also includes Screen Fader. 
Snowbench. and FlipBench. 

TC31 : Calendar Publisher is a professional-caliber cal- 
endar maker that is customizable. CrossCircuil is a 1 or 
2 player action/logic game that calls tor fast reflexes and 
thinking. APR is a much-needed printer utility. Pizza 
Delivery Man is a maze game where you deliver pies in 
your neighborhood. Mulliolaver is a single program that 
will let you see IFF pictures/brushes or playback IFF 
sound samples. Also includes RAMgauge, 3-D vector 
objecls and Hi-Res IFF brushes ot maps and flags of 
European countries. 

TC26: Wprd Search MaKsr lets you create word-search 
puzzles. TimeQalc is useful for anyone who has to cal- 
culate hours and minutes (great for adding up times of 
CDs to make tapes!) Drug busters is a lun game where 
you get rid of cigarettes, booze, pills and needles. 
Wouihiiiif! [<■!/, yuu search binary or text files toi a par- 
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adventure games!). KeyClick will add a small audible 
click to your keys and MouseClick will do the same for 
the mouse buttons. Seawar is a game between the 
Allied Navy and the Empire Fleet. Plus Early American 
3-D vector objects, digitized sound effects, and a direc- 
tory program. 

TC25: ScreenTolFF captures your screen to an IFF file. 
PopCofors lets you change the colors of your 
Workbench screen. Warrio r is a fun shoot'em- 
up'adventure game tor one or two players. 
Kaleidoscope is a line drawing program. Blockbusters 
is a game where you get rid of blocks by pushing match- 
ing blocks into them. Amidemo will show-off your 
Amigas ability to do solid-polygon animations. 
Microscope lets you examine memory at any location, 
Also includes Hi-Res IFF brushes of all 50 states and 10 
Canadian provinces, nine digitized sounds and two 
small disk utilities and printer utility. 



TC24: TableMaker is a tool for effortlessly building 
numerical tables. Kooties is a fun game where you 
have to assemble a bug before the computer beats you 
to it. H yperText lets you put links in a text file to other 
text, graphics, sound, animation, ARexx and other appli- 
cations. The Little Black fioflk is a wonderfully useful 
telephone and address book. Color Logic is a 
MasterMind-type game. Also includes several disk and 
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misplaced file on your drive. Select creates a window 
from which you can run your favorite programs. 
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date in the century, also lets you enter statistical data to 
be analyzed, graphs data, and solves linear algebraic 
equations. Pointer List Maker lets you create your own 
pointers or import pointers Irom other programs and 
save Ihem in a disk file. Dyno-Wars requires more strat- 
egy and thought than your regular checker board game. 
Also includes Ml. Monster and Trilion games, 3-D 
objects, six sound effects and an animation of a pretzel, 
TC22: Amiga Checkbook is a fast checkbook manager 
with check printing ability, budget analysis, and a report 
writer. AmiCrypt is a file encryption/decryption tool to 
password-protect any life... a must for security. 
WaveSyn lets you design musical instruments and 
waveforms for use in other programs. It also lets you 
play your keyboard like a piano. Cinco is a game where 
you try to get five X's in a row before your opponent 
does. AlterCLI lets you change attributes of your CLl 
window (width, title, depth, height, location, colors) with 
a single command— very useful for scripts. Also 
includes an animation by renowned Amiga-artist Lou 
Markoya. as well as 3-D objects. 
TC21 : Circe is a "risk-style" game where you battle the 
computer to take over the planet. Batchman allows you 
to execute CLl programs, batch files and ARexx scripts 



by simply clicking on a gadget. Colors prints color lesl 
sheels and assigns RGB values to printer and screen 
output. ...absolutely invaluable to achieve the best color 
printing results. Easyfile is a powerful database for 
home or a small business. Sprite Editor lets you easily 
create animated sprites. Plus 3-D fruit objects and five 
sampled sounds. 

TC16: Cyberscape generates complex 3-D vector 
objects of terrain and saves your objecls in Sculpt or 
Turbo-Silver format. Matholotter graphs mathematical 
equations in both 2-D and 3-D. Bauble Eiint prints your 
text files on both sides ot the paper. Metamorph. a 
graphic adventure game, Tinyball — the worlds smallest 
baseball arcade game and 6 digitized sound effects. 
TC15: Labelmaker is a very easy to use iabel program. 
SurroundCvcles. a high-speed arcade game. Doi2Dot, 
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tutorial on animation techniques by Amiga-artist extrordi- 
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TC14: AmigoFile is a database and address book. 
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and displays digitized sounds. Pleronadonaball— an 
animation by Lou Markoya, Also includes 2J2 Jjc Tac 
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TC12: TJ Format formats disks that AmigaDOS normal- 
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such, it gives you much finer animation 
controls than most interactive model- 
ers, allowing your objects to move in a 
more natural manner. 

RayDance version 1.0 sports a 2.0 
Workbench interlace that has been 




A sample 24-bit scene from RayDance, 
created with the accompanying script. 



From p. 24. 

the scene is a tenderer with a different 
twist: RayDance (Radiance Software, 
$99.95) is a highly programmable 
rendercr rather than a highly interac- 
tive modeler like its competitors. As 

lExclamations begin comment lines, ?'s print 
! messages on RayDance's message window. 
? "Make a Green transparent sphere on a 
columnW; 

(Camera location 
CAMERA'POS = [0,-1300,400]; 
CAMERATARGET = [0,0,300]; 

! Load bitmaps for textures and bump map 
BRICKS_TM : texturemap( "bricks4.ilbm" ); 
BRICKS_BMAP : 

bumpmap{ "brickbumps4b.ilbm" ); 

STARS_TM : texturemap( "sSarfield.ilbm" ); 
CANALSJTM : texturemap( "canais.ilbm" ); 

ICotors 

GREEN_AQUA : COLOR(RGB, [0.0,0.9.0.1]); 
BLUE : COLOR (RGB, [O,0,1]); 
LTGRAY : COLOR (RGB, [0.6,0.6,0.6]); 



ITexture maps 

STARS_TMAP : texturefplane, STARS_TM. CAMERA'POS. [0,1,0], [1.0,0]. 40,40,10, 1,1, 

REPEAT ); 
CANALS_TMAP : texture( plane, canals Jm, [0,0,0], [0,0,1], [1,0,0], 100, 

100,100,4,4, REPEAT); 

iSurfaces 

ISphere surf ka kd te n km kr ir kb flags 

SPHERE_SURF: 

SURFACE(PHONG, 0.2,0.2,0.5,50.0,0.1 ,0.9,0.76.0.0.TRANSPARENT ); 

Dull surface ka kd ks n km kr ir kb flags 
MATTE: 

SURFACEfPHONG, 1.0,1.0,0.0, 0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0 ); 

! Column surface 
SHINY : 

SURFACE(PHONG, 1.0, 0.9. 0.8, £5.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0.SILVER ); 

lObjects 

I Sphere itself 

SPHERE ( [0,0,300], 100, GREEN_AQUA, SPHERE_SURF); 

! COLUMN 

! Build the first object using the an imported outline and 

! two lathe statements. Enclose this object in a NAMED 

! boundary in case we decide to do replicas later 

COLUMN_OUTLINE : ou1line( "column_outl:ne.geo", [1,1,4], xz ); 



designed not for drawing, but for con- 
trolling the rendering aspects of scenes 
that are described in RayDance scripts. 
These scripts describe objects (geo- 
metric, extruded, lathed, generated, 
and imported from Oxxi's VideoScape 
3D or Modeler 3D), textures, bump 
maps, lighting, and backgrounds, as 
well as tweening. 

They can also contain variables, if- 
then-else, looping controls, and user- 
written procedures to drive an animat- 
ed set of objects through a whole movie- 
scene. For example, you could instruct 
a squadron of jets to fly, bank, and twist 
through a hillscape or an asteroid field. 
or a tree to grow up from a pot as in 
time-lapse photography. It's not exact- 
ly Renderman (Pixar's rendcrer/pro- 
gramming language lor lite Mac), but 
RayDance is a good step in the right 
direction. 

A Script Is Worth 1000 
Graphics 

RayDance's strength does not lie in 
letting yon draw fancy wire-mesh ob- 
jects to render. Rather, it provides a set 
of basic geometric primitives describ- 
able in its script language: polygons 
(with or widiout holes), spheres, 
planes, and quadric surfaces (ellip- 
soids, cones, and so on). 

It can also construct algorithmic 
objects, such as fractal landscapes 
(using the standard iterating per- 
turbed triangle); trees with forking, 
twisting, tapering, and drooping con- 
trol and leaves; Mandelbrot sets; lath- 
ed objects (surfaces of rotation); ex- 
truded objects (sometimes referred to 
as prisms); and hierarchical objects 
(for efficicnev)- RayDance can also 
import wire-mesh object descriptions 
from VideoScape 3D and Modeler 3D; 
a number are included on the pro- 
gram's four disks. 

You can then enhance these objects 
with surface descriptions, including the 
standard reflectance (ambient, diffuse, 
and specular controls), transiucence 
and transparency, and color (in Red- 
Green-Blue or Hue-Saturation-Value 
Form). The surface color can be cither 
solid or an IFF-image texture map, and 
you can merge a bump map with it to 
model surface roughness. Add lighting, 
ground and backdrop specifications, 
and you've got a scene. 

RayDance can write IFF24, PPM (a 
Unix formal), raw RGB bytes, eight-bit 
grayscale, or black-and-white wireframe 
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From p. 70. 

Tiles. The manual recommends using 
ASDG'sArt Department Professional 
(Al tl'io) lo convert these In oilier for- 
mats, and it includes a sample ARexx 
script Ibi' driving ADPro lo convert an 
animation sequence. 

Consider an example: The accom- 
panying lamp picture was created Irani 
a combination of both objects and tex- 
tures. The green lamp is a transparent 
sphere, sitting on a lathed imported 
column (which came with RavDance). 
This in turn rests on a lathed pedestal 
of a different shape, sitting in a rectan- 
gular polygon starfield. The brick 
ground plane uses both texture and 



bump maps; the starfield and the 
pedestal use two more texture maps 
from the RayDancc set. 

Take a look at the script used to 
create the picture. It begins with the 
camera position (RayDancc allows 
control over film speed, lens aperture, 
and focal length, as well as position), 
loads some IFF images for textures, 
and goes on to create some simple 
colors and most of the texture maps. 
The names to the left of the colons in 
the COLOR, TEXTUREMAR TEX- 
TURE, and other commands are my 
own names, which I use for referencing 
these objects in other parts of the 
script. 



COLUMN : boundary^ [0.0.0] ) ! a named and positioned boundary 

! Column base 

LATHE( ( [0.0,0], [40,40,0], [40,40,20], [0,0,20] ), 6, -360, 0, [ 2,2,2], 
[0,0,0], [0,0.0], CANALSJTMAP, MATTE, ZAXIS ); 

! Column proper 

LATHE( ( COLUMN_OUTLINE >, 25, -360. 0, [2,2,2], [0,0,19], [0,0,01, 
LTGRAY, SHINY. PHONG ZAXIS ); 

endboundary 

! Starfield courtyard the column sits in 

COURTYARD: POLYGON(@[-300,-300.1]. ©[-300.300,1]. @ [300,300,1], ©[300.-300.1]. 
STARS_TMAP, SHINY, PHONG); 

ILighting 

! Ambient always color dir kl(oase) k2(range) 

AMBIENT ([0,0,0], [0.7,0.7,0.7], [0,0,1], 0, 0); 

! Starlight pos color radius 

STAR ( [5000,-5000,4000], [.9,1 .1], 300); 

IGround 

! Ground plane texture and bump maps (bricks) 

BRlCK_TMAP : texture( PLANE, BRICKS_TM, [0,0,0]. [0,0,1], [1,0,0], 100.100.100. 1,1, REPEAT 

SMOOTH3 ); 
BRICK_BUMPS : bump( PLANE, BRICKS„BMAP, MATTE. 1.0, [0,0,0], [0,0.1], [1,0,0], 

100,100,100, 1,1. REPEAT); 

I Brick ground 

GROUND( PLAIN, 0, BRICK_TMAP, BRICK_BUMPS ); 

(Background: pale grayish-blue sky to dark reddish blue 

BACKGROUND (SKY. [0.4,0.4,0-7], [0.2,0.4.0.6],[0.6,0.2,0.1],0.6); 

! render it... 

RENDER; 



END 



Objects can be named as well, to be 
cloned into multiple copies with little 
memory impact. The script then de- 
scribes the objects and their positions 
in a world coordinate system where X 
is the horizontal (left-right) axis, Y the 
depth axis (into and out of the 
screen), and Z the vertical (bottom- 
top) axis. Finally, it details the ambi- 
ent light, the "star" lighting the scene, 
the ground plane and texture, and 
the sky. 

The RENDER statement causes 
RavDance to generate its 24-bit-color 
output file, with a HAM preview 
drawn to the screen. On my 25-MHz 
Amiga 3000 with a 68881 and two 
megabytes of RAM, this scene took 
just over seven minutes to run to an 
IIT2-1 file. Il would have been some- 
what faster ii I'd had enough RAM to 
write the picture file to a RAM disk. 
(While the program will run on one 
meg of RAM, the manufacturer rec- 
ommends using at least four megs and 
an accelerator.) 

To add motion to this, the script 
could create transformation matrices 
to move and rotate the lamppost (or a 
modeled frog with a top hat, say), 
through a sequence of positions, using 
a Tween statement to calculate inter- 
mediate positions and render the 
sequence of scenes. At this point, go 
out for dinner at a nice restaurant; 
then come home and check out your 
movie. 

Group Effort 

I still haven't gotten much below the 
surface of Ray Dance to describe such 
features as antialiasing, surface pertur- 
bation, and more. The package is 
packed. It comes with a very good 200- 
page manual, hardware-floating-point 
and nonfloating-point versions of the 
program, almost 40 scripts and a num- 
ber of textures, some sample pictures, 
and a hard-disk installation program. 



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With RavDance, your texture maps can fiil- 
li nv the contours of your object, and that's 
pretty impressive. None of the other ten- 
deters I've tried have this ^real feature. 
I he program docs seem to run a bit slower 
thun the others, but the end it- suit;, arc just 
as nice. 

Rick Gearhart 
DrLaitrl. Florida 

Continued t»i p. 7$. 



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From p. 74. 

All you need further is an editor to 
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ICD 

An inside job. 

By Sheldon Leemon 

IF YOU WANT to add a hard drive to 

an Amiga 500, you need an external 
box, right? Wrong! With its AdIDE40 
and ADIDE44 controllers and Prima 
and Novia drive options, ICD not only 
allows A500 owners to add a hard 
drive internally, but also provides wo 
separate mounting options. There's 
even a version that includes the Ad- 
Speed accelerator, so you can speed up 
your computer while adding a hard 
drive. 

At the heart of all of these systems is 
the AdIDE hard-drive adapter, which 
allows you to connect an IDE hard 
drive to any .Amiga 500, 1000, or 2000. 
IDE hard drives were designed to at- 
tach directly to the PC expansion slots 



of MS-DOS machines with a minimum 
of interface hardware, and they don't 
require much hardware lo conned to 
an Amiga, either. The entire AdIDE 
board isn't much bigger than the 
68000 processor socket it plugs into, 
and at a list price of $1 10, it is one of 
the least expensive hard-drive adapters 
you can buv lor the Amiga. IDE drives 
air a little slower than the SCSI drives 
normally used on Amiga systems, but 
their popularity in the IBM world 
makes them inexpensive and readily 
available. 

Big Megs in Small Packages 

The AdlDE44 version of the controller 
connects to 2.5-inch hard drives that 
are commonly used in laptop PCs. 
Their compact size (they are smaller 
than an audio cassette) makes it possi- 
ble to mount them internally to the 
A500 motherboard with room to spare. 
Their low power consumption (they are 
designed to run from batteries) means 
that i hey have no trouble operating 
from the standard A500 power supply. 

When notebook drives first made 
an appearance, they were limited lo 20 
megabytes and were quite expensive. 
Now, however, ICD offers complete 
2.5-inch Novia drive systems in 20-, 
40-, 60-. and 85-meg sizes, at list 
prices that range from S271 for the 
Novia 20 to S710 for the Novia 85. 
This means you can now get a 20MB 
internal hard drive for about the same 
price as I paid lor my first external 
Soppy drive. 

While 2.5-inch drives have come 
down in price and gone in up storage 
capacity, they still hold less and cost 
more than full-size drives. Eor those 
who want more bang for their buck 
and don't mind modifying their com- 
puter somewhat, ICD offers the 
AdIDE40, which connects to such 3.5- 
inch drives as the Quantum LPS series 
(the Prima option). The combination 
of AdIDE40 and a Quantum drive 
curremlv costs $4:50 for the 52MB 
drive and S584 for the 105MB model. 



Table 1. DiskSpced 4.1 results (or AdIDE and AdSpeedIDE controllers, with 


a 2.5-inch Novia 20 drive Installed in 


an Amiga 500 with one megabyte 


of chip RAM (WORD-altgned buffers). 






AdIDE 


AdSpeedIDE 


.5K Butter Read 


69456 bytes/sec 


81626 bytes/sec 


,5K Buffer Write 


79158 bytes/sec 


96359 bytes/sec 


4K Buffer Read 


171008 bytes/sec 


171813 bytes/sec 


4K Buffer Write 


168488 bytesteec 


165025 bytes/sec 


32K Buffer Read 


402136 bytes/sec 


423338 bytes/sec 


32K Buffer Write 


417792 bytes/sec 


411126 bytes/sec 



The LPS drives draw little power, so 
you don't need a replacement power 
supply to use them. 

The only way to install the drive 
internally, however, is to remove the 
internal floppy and mount the hard 
drive in its place. You can compensate 
for the loss of the internal drive with 
the Shuffle Board, which is included 
with the Prima system and changes the 
first external drive to dlt):, the device 
designation normally reserved for the 
internal drive. 

Even without the Shuffle Board, 
however, all of the AdIDE controllers 
enable you to boot from an external 
drive, as well as an internal one. I 
learned this the hard way when I inad- 
vertently left a bootable disk in the 
internal drive after installing the 2.5- 
inch Novia drive. Imagine my shock 
when the computer booted a game 
instead of Workbench, and there wasn't 
even a disk in the internal drive! Un- 
fortunately, there's no way to disable 
this feature. 

Installation of both types of AdIDE 
controllers is a snap for anyone who 
has opened the case of the computer, 
and fairly simple for those who haven't. 
Once you've unscrewed the case and 
shielding (you'll need a number 10 
star-head Torx driver to open the 
A500), gently pry out the 68000 pro- 
cessor chip, plug the chip into the 
interface board, and then plug the 
board into the socket. The process is 
the same for the AdSpeed IDE, except 
for plugging in the processor chip, 
because the board comes with its own 
high-speed processor. 

Next, you need to mount the drive. 
With the Novia 2.5-inch drive kit, that's 
as simple as peeling the backing from 
the tape pads on the mounting feel 
and pressing the drive onto ttie moth- 
erboard. The entire Novia installation 
took less than ten minutes, and it 
worked the first time. Installing the 
Prima 5,5-inch drive is a little harder, 
but not much. You've got to remove 
four more screws that hold the floppy 
drive, unplug the power and logic 
cables from the drive, and replace it 
with the hard drive. To install the Shuf- 
fle Board, you remove one of the CIA 
chips, plug it into the board, and plug 
the board into the socket. 

If you buy the complete Prima or 
Novia kits from ICD, the drives come 
formatted with the Workbench software 
already installed. Even if you buy the 
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however, the graphically-oriented parti- 
tioning and formatting software is easy 
to use. In fact, ifvou accept the default 
settings of one large bootable partition, 
yon can perform the whole operation 
by pressing one button. 

There is good documentation for 
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formatting software. Unfortunately, 
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would be helpful, also. 

On the Test Bench 

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ga 500 with no expansion RAM, it 
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results (see Table 1 ). The noise from 
the drive is noticeable, particularly 
considering that ASOOs are just about 
silent, but the Novia is actually very 
quiet when compared to other hard- 
drive svstems. 



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1 installed an AdIDE Prima 105i Quantum 
LPS in my system some time ago, and it 
has been working quite well to date. The 
installation, although it required disassem- 
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partitioning software was just wonderful 
compared to GVP's and Supra'*. With a 
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the A- Max driver freezes when accessed on 
the Mac side and is thus useless. The rest 
of the system works great. 

Andrew Nelson 
Green I3f}\; Wisconsin 

I didn't run into any compatibility 

problems, and to ensure that you don't 
either. Id) lets you disable the drive 
completely by holding down ihc left 
mouse billion at boot time for those 





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attached. 

The drive uses about 80K of memo- 
ry for buffers, but if you are running 
tight on RAM, you can disable the 
buffers and reclaim their memory by 
holding down the right mouse button 
when you boot. Because of the physi- 
cally small size of the AdIDE board, 
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with other internal boards such as 
Kickslart switches, chip RAM en- 
hancers, or ICD's own Flicker Free 
Video board. It may, however, be diffi- 
cult to stack the AcllDE on top of 
accelerator or memory boards that 
also plug into the 68000 socket and 
still get the case back on. 

The ADSpeedlDE boards combine 
a hard-drive interface with the Ad- 
Speed accelerator that I discussed in 
Part 3 of the A500-expansion series 
of articles (AmigaWorld, Apr. '91 
p.38). This accelerator uses a 68000 
processor running at double the 
normal 7.16-MHz clock speed, along 
with IfiK of high-speed cache memo- 
ry, so effectively double I he rate at 
which programs are executed. Al- 
though the board is very compatible 
running at the higher speed, you can 
swap back to normal speed with the 
included software or by connecting a 
hardware switch to jumpers on the 
board. 

Willi this installed, you can even 
change speeds while the computer is 
running, meaning that you can load a 
copy-protected game at normal speed 
and then accelerate play after you've 
passed the timing-sensitive loading 
sequence. Because the IDE interface is 
a non DMA design that uses the proces- 
sor to transfer all data, the AdSpeed- 
IDF board even boosts (he drive speed 
by up to 15%. (See 'Fable 1.) 

If you want to add a hard drive to 
your A500, but don't like bulky expan- 
sion boxes, the AdIDE controllers and 
drives are the natural choice. In fact, 
they provide a low-cost, high-perfor- 
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wishes to add a hard drive. (Though 1 
haven't tried it, thev should even work 
with CDTV.) As the cost of 2.5-inch 
notebook hard drives approaches that 
of their 3. 5-inch cousins, the combina- 
tion of convenience and low price that 
the Novia series offers may soon be 
hard to beat. ■ 



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By Peter Olafson 

If Dynamics games lor the 
Amiga were stocks, we'd all 
be rich as Bill Gates: They 
just keep getting better. With 
ils extensive animation, The 
Adventures of Willy Beamish 
($59.95) is the best yet. 

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back seat in previous Dy- 
namix games, with Willie B 
(a nine-year-old with puppy- 
dog eyes and a trace of a 
tail), his family, friends, and 
not a few enemies, it's been 
moved up front. If you want 
to pick up an object, Willy 
himself ambles over and 
picks it up. If you want to 
move to another room, Willy 
boy is there to do the walk- 
ing. Von don't have full 
control over tile character as 
in Siena's Quest games — 
hey, nobody can control this 
kid — but that wasn't the 
purpose. With your charac- 
ter on screen, this elaborate 
cartoon carnival feels less 
removed than its predeces- 
sors; it's not just a story with 
ajazzy interface. 

Willy really is a character, 
too. It's the best of times 
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last day of school with Willy 
in detention after his frog 
{Horny) assaulted (and cle- 
wigged) the principal. 
(There's also a matter of 
that "C" in Music Apprecia- 
tion on the report card 
waiting at home.) He can 
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mail — if he has the right 
sniff and the right timing — 
but that means meeting 
Spider in the bathroom. 
(Then again, thai means you 




How much trouble can you get into as a nine-year-old? 



get to see the school nurse. 
Hch-heh!) 

I'm a little afraid of saying 
too much about the plot. 
(Plots, actually, as there are 
lots of different ways for 
Willy to go.) Let's just say 
that after a fairly ordinary 
Day One — Willie does 
chores — things begin to get 
a mite. ..well, odd. For ex- 
ample, The Simpsons' 
Babysitter Bandit is an angel 
beside the creature the 
Beamishes hire. And let's say 
that while the folks behind 
the counter at the Slice of 
Life pizza parlor make the 
pies, Willy cuts the cheese. 

For the most part, Willy 
Beamish doesn't hesitate to 
stretch the bounds of weird- 
ness, incorrigibility, or ques- 
tionable taste, a delightful 
trend that's carried over into 
the documentation, which 
includes a National Lam- 
poon-style version of Willy's 
notebook containing the 



inscription "Nerds play 
Police Quest." (Hey, I 
thought Dynamix was a 
Sierra company.) 

The challenge is to raise 
an entertaining amount of 
useful hell while remaining 
in the good graces of your 
parents on the Trouble 
Meter (so Willy doesn't get 
sent to cadet school), earn- 
ing $2500 to get to the 
Nintari videogame cham- 
pionships, and saving die 
city of Frump ton from the 
best-laid evil plans of a 
sweetener-maker. (She 
shares a surname and jaw- 
line with a certain "rhymes- 
with-rich" hotelier.) 

The game svstem is al- 
most identical to that used 
in Dvnamix's two earlier 
games — all mouse, windows, 
and menus — and it's easy as 
ever to use. However, Willy 
B is much more extensive 
than its predecessors, check- 
ing in at 12 disks (close to *■ 



By Peter Olafson 

The girl with the treasure chest is 
back. In Elvira II: The Jaws of Cer- 
berus (Accolade, $59.95), the dou- 
bJe-D-cup scream queen is in trou- 
ble again — held prisoner in her 
studio by... a dog. Welt, it's a really 
big dog, see. Extra heads. Large 
teeth. Several stories high. The ba- 
sic puppy-from-hell sort of thing. 

Actually, before you rush off to 
save Ellie, there are a couple of 
much-needed items out there in the 
blue night. One is a rock [off to the 
right of the path), and the other is a 
clover (under the sign). 

You'll need the rock almost im- 
mediately, as you don't have a key 
to the security shed. Hmm, looks 
like there's been a fight here, or at 
least someone's had a digestive 
problem. The guard in the closet is 
long gone, but you'll want his jacket 
and hat — not +2 plate mail, but bet- 
ter than nothing — and that key on 
his belt for the security panel on the 
desk. The car in the parking lot de- 
serves a once-over, as well — no- 
tably the trunk. 

Then on into the studio lobby. 
Some of you are being too hasty 
here (probably because there's little 
of use) and are forgetting to look in 
all possible directions in all possible 
locations. There's an elevator catty- 
corner to the bathrooms that takes 
you up to the studio offices — also 
known as Reagant Central. Pay par- 
ticular attention to Elvira's dressing 
room. (Knew you would anyway!) 
Do avoid the costume department 
just now, however, or at least save 
your game before blundering in. 

It's hard to give hints here — and 
in many sections of this game — 
without just listing items: the key 
trick is inventory control. An awful 
lot of stuff in E2 can be picked up 

Continued on //. L >2. 



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1 megabytes when installed 
on the recommended hard 
disk). This is a positively 
elegant, toney game. The 
32-Color backgrounds, with 
their slightly-faded, water- 
color look, resemble artists' 
renderings. The music is 
superb (as in Willy's forerun- 
ners), and more than one 
theme had me bopping 
around my office like a total 
dance-machine idiot when I 
should have been playing 
the game. (Great bass line!) 

The animation is pretty 
good, too. While the larger 
and more complex scenes 
could be smoother — on a 
68000-based Amiga they 
have the telltale bump- 
bump-bump of frames going 
by — those on a smaller scale 
are fluid and charmingly 
nuance-filled, showing the 
influence of such directors 
as Tex Avery and Chuck 
Jones in the right places 
(overblown reactions and 
sneaks of color behind peo- 
ple in a hurry). 

Surprisingly, one of the 
biggest pleasures is "read- 
ing" Willy — summoning the 
magnifying glass (right 
mouse button click) and 
poking around the many 
description -filled locations. 
This isn't the token gotta- 



say-something filler that 
attends some computer 
games; instead, it is elabo- 
rate text, revealing of char- 
acter and often quite funny. 
(Turns out Mom Beamish is 
quite the little Yuppie.) You 
can also run the trains in the 
attic, listen to the answer- 
ing-machine messages, reset 
your sister's scale, or play an 
inane video game called 
Monster Squad. And this is 
just at home. We've come a 
long way from Little Com- 
puter People, eh? 

Quibbles? Well, loads still 
lake a while, though re- 
sponse time for summoning 
the Inventory is much im- 
proved. And franklv, 1 could 
do without the ghost of 
Grandpa Beamish turning 
up to warn Willy when he's 
on the verge of doing some- 
thing bad. It feels like a sort 
of politically-correct, "Don't 
try this at home, kids" ad- 
dendum that's antithetical to 
the game's ethos (and to the 
try-anything, adventure- 
gaming spirit). C'mon Dy- 
namix, Willy's a brat, but 
he's not eating Draino or 
anything. Lighten up, eh? 
Otherwise, I had an abso- 
lutely wonderful time in the 
world of Willy B. 

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AdiD£40 for 3,5" hard drives $99 
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AdIOK Kits ii'rimai S139 

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Amiga Diagnostician. Diagnose up to 26 common 
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New operating system just released (NTSC/PAL). 
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out. KIT CONTAINS: Two 8520A CIA Chips. 8362 half 
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the following tests: Keyboard, Hi Res, half Bright. 
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• MeCOY/Burndy (PLCC) Agnus chip puller. 
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• REJUVENATOR II A1000 Upgrade. Second 
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A2000 specs. Contains 2MB Agnus, 8373 Super 
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diagnostic software. No soldering S599.95 

• AMIGA A500 KEYBOARD (new) $59.95 

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• 8520 CIA CHIP.$10.50 (2 or more $9.00 each) 

• A2000 Power Supply: 200 watt/fan .... $109.95 

• GVP-SIMM 32-4 MtVBO tor above S219.95 



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2 D4 Enhancer ROM Kit »AS2t3 Includes 4 (loppy disks, t.000 

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KwikStart H™ uni^e 1 3 and 20 aoms 

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Each meg ot memory add ......... ,.$38.95 

AdSpeed. Best overall pertormance ol any accelerator in its price 

range $174.95 

Flicker Free Video. Eliminates interlace dicker for any Amiga 
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wilh 2 meg S1S2.9S 

Each additional meg ol memory add , S38.95 

AdRAM 2080. 8 meg internally in your 2000/2500 $97.50 

Each meg ot memory add $35.00 

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IDE 44 Kit (for 2.5" hard drive) $117,50 

IDE 40 (lor 3.5" hard drive} (includes controller & cable] S92.S0 

IDE 40 Kit (includes Shuffle Beard) $134.50 

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Novia 40i $369.95 

Novia 60i .5574.95 

Novia 85i $714.00 

Prima 52i. 3.5" IDE drive internally in your 500, 1000. 2000 ....$358.95 
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Eleclronic ROM Selector Switch by Global Upgrades. Inc. allows lor 
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which means complete compatibility wilh AdSpeed or Mega Midget 
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available. Instructions included $44.50 

BONUS: Buy the Swtlch-Itt Irom us and get the 2.04 ROM Kit lor S84.0Q. 
the 2.04 ROM only for S39.95 and/or the 1.3 ROM tor $22.95. 

© EXPENSIVE REPAIR COSTS 

If your Amiga 500/1500/2000 shows the following symptoms, you may 
need a replacement ol the most problematic (IC| chip in your Amiga the 
8520A Areas affected by either ot the two 8520A chips are: Centronics 
port. RS232 port, joy stick port, mouse port, drive LED, drive motor, blank 
screen, green screen, boot and external drive problems. (None ot the 
above'' See our Amiga Diagnostician.) The 6520A is a simple plug in and 
will save you a lot of repair costs and down time. 40% or all broken Am igas 
are caused by bad 8520s. No soldering. 

8520A $10.50 (2 for S9.00 each) 

McCOY (PLCC) AGNUS CHIP PULLER 

This as an exact copy of the Burndy chip extractor that Commodore sells 
tor S29.95.lt is essentia] for removing the Agnus chip. Our price (or Ihts top 
professional tool „ $14.95 

SUPER DENISE 8373 UPGRADE 

New 8373 ECS Super Denise chip adds new screen modes: productivity 
mode lor flicker free display and enhanced picture, superhi-res mode lor 
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mode allowing greater flexibility. (This is the same chip used in the 
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erupting volcanoes, and 
hurricane winds; or you can 
send ancient Greek heroes 
such as Hercules, Perseus, 
and Odysseus rampaging 



save games in progress. Al- 
though ii operated flawlessly 
on an Amiga 500, I did have 
some problems running the 
game on an A3000 with 
AmigaDOS 2.04. Sometimes 




Greek mythology class was never this much fun. 



through your Toe's territory. 

Not all powers are destruc- 
tive; some allow you to erect 
walls around your cities, 
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population. There are nearly 
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destruction. 

Populous II supports all 
Amiga models that have at 
least one megabyte of RAM, 
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stallable. Copy protection is 
manual-based, and von can 



the screen would quickly 
alternate between two sepa- 
rate game screens. At other 
times, the game simply 
locked up, forcing me to 
reboot. 

Even with the infrequent 
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ELF 

By Graham Kinsey 

As Cornelius, the Elvan 
hero of Elf {Ocean/Electron- 
ic Arts, $49.9">), you must 
rescue your girlfriend horn 
the villain Necrilous the 
Not Very Nice, fortunately, 
that's as unoriginal as the 
game gets. You guide Cor- 
nelius through eight huge 
levels (many with multiple 






parts), solving numerous 
puzzles while combating 
men and monsters that 
constantly attack. Every 
opponent you eliminate 
leaves behind either a valu- 
able token that gives you 
bonus points (when you 
finish the level) or a heart 
Continued on p. 92. 



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Mutants — a small version of trie same arcade game SuperBreatout is a 
Pong ArKanoirJs type game 

FD27: Arcade Games - Thus disk is Eoaded : »vi|h same greai games- Includes. 
Raceorama 3 great racing car game with ten different courses. MimBlast a 
helicopter gunship type done. Shark in ihe same class as froger, and 
SBreakou" the original breakout with more. 

FD29: Shoot/em up's WWll - you're the pilot of a WWII plane Hying through 
enemy territory, you're just been spotted, good luck on you mission, SpKiiHer - 
try and penetrate enemy lines with this game, and Retaiiator - another great 
game, 

FD31 i Gamesi - Air Traffic Control ■ a good ATC simulation, Black Jack Lab ■ 
a full featured set ot card games, ChessTei ■ play chess with your friend in 
distant and remote places with this game And a modem, labymth - a well 
dene tent adventure game {like an intocom game), and MouseTrap • a 3d 
maze game 

FD32: Flight Simulator - An instrument Might simulator for a DC10. 
FD33 . Arcade Games ■ Ffreddy a Mario Broihers type of game. Gerbiis a tar- 
get practice game. PipeLlne a German Interprets ion of Pipe Dreams. Tron a 
light cycles version, and Wetroids a wonderiuf version of asteroids with a 
hilanous twst. 

FD35; Omega (v 1.3} A new outstanding dungeon and outdoors adventure 
game m a similar vein as hack, rouge, and moria. This version is consictef- 
abiy taster anc! better that all previous versions. Play time several weeks or 
months. 

FD37ABB:Tactlcal Games Empire (2 2w; This groat game comes highly 
recommended. With a fuligraphic front end. 

FD3H: Games Cribbage Master - A great cnbbage game ar*d luier, Spades 
• a well done card came. ChineseChockers - A computer version of this clas- 
sic. Pui2 - a slide p*ea pu«ki game and construction se:, 
FD3&A4B: Slar Trek, The New Generation • This is a. completely different 
version of Star Trek than lhat found on FD12. This one was created by the 
German author Tobias. Now with English instructions. Excellent!!! Counts as 
two disks. Requires 512k 

FD44 : Game - Wechfight is an out of this world rote-playing adventure com- 
parable to hack and mona. The setting, interplanetary colonies and space 
stations in your quest to ouptore trie world, take lime out to liberate bad guys 
of their most valuable possessions, engago in a mortal combat or two againsi 
robots and alien tile lorms, pick up a new Amiga 9000. Wosi ol all. don't lorget 
lo stay alive.. 

FD49:Chaofl Cheats This disk contains an everything yqu waniod to know 
about cheat set for Cnaos Strikes Back, including lull maps, spells, object 
locations, super characters and more. 

FD50: Submarine Game - Seaiance. one and a hall years in the makng. this 
;s an outstanding submarine taclica! game. Commercial quality, highly rec- 
ommended. 

FD52; Classics Games PoiersQuesr a well done Mario brolheis type c-f 
game, Jymbc a two player missile command clone, and Vstank a tank com- 
mander game. 

FD53 : Great Arcade On this disk is a wonderful implementation of fne ever 
popular classic arcade game Defender. Also contain Air Race a WWII Hying 
ace arcade game, and Psycoblasi new creation idea game 
FD56: Arcade incfudos SpaceWar, HuayRaid is a well done helicopter 
arcade game. PowerPong's a gireai expanded pong game. 
FDS7: Arcade Gamea Includes 2 truly commercial quality games. 
MegaBail. an Arkanotf-ish game, features 5 musical scores muiiipls levels 
and addicting gameplay. Gravity Attack is a psychadetiic tnp through several 
different worlds — each distinctly drtlerent. 

FD53: GAMES! - IrtduBes Steinschlag; a greai Tatns done Irom Germany 
with music. SCombai: simulate batfe between up to 40 players S monsters. 
Imperium Romanumi Sattie up to 4 players for control of the Mediterranean. 
in this Risfc-esCjue game. 

FOS9: Game Potpourri - Xenon 111 is an aim:st exact clone o' the commer- 
cial game of me same name... a great shootemup. Crossword wiil take lists of 
words & automatically generate word-search ouizles for any Epson compat- 
ahio prtntof 

FOBO: Gamrjs * In Webuia. race over a 3d world to destroy enemy Installa- 
tions. Interferon; a groat Dr. Mario clone. Enigma, is it a gameor a puzrle 1 ' 
FDtai: Games ■ Solitaire; great graphics, plays, twg versions KUdo: an Inter- 
esting piece ol eye candy. Extreme Violence: 2 player kill or bekilled game. 
YATc. A Telns clone with Anifical Intelligence Genesis; create realstic 3d 
fractal workss 



Workbench Disks 



FD5: Tactical Games - BuHRun - a Civil war battle game. Metro you play the 
role of a city planner Build wisely and your system will bo a success, but poor 
planning will lead to disaster and financial ruin Very very habit forming 
FD6: GAMES! ■ This disk is chock lull ol games inducting; Checkers, Clue. 
Gofd - A new slide the pieces p-uzite, Jeopard - An enhanced version of Rish, 



WB<l:Telecommumnicatlon This disk contains several excellem pd com- 
munication programs designed: to get you on line quickly and easily. Access 
[1 .42) • A very nice ANSI term program based on Comm vt.34. but with the 
additon of several transfer protocols. Comm ( l 3d) Latest version of ene of 
the best pubtic domain communications programs ever made on the Am>ga, 
Handshake (2,12a) Handshake is a Full leaiured VT52:T0Q'!02/220 
WB5: Fonls *1- Several lonls [35! lor the Amiga, also included are live 
PagoStream fonts, and ShowFont - a font display program. 
WB6: Fonts #2 ■ ShawFon|(4,Q) This program allows you to quickly and 
painlessly view all 25$ characters in a typical 'ont, Large AmigaDos system 
tents {many up to Sfipisi 

WB7: Clip Art - This disk is leaded with black and while clip an. An 
inciud&s, trees, watches, tools, US ano State maps, and more. 
WB9: Icons - Truly a multitude of various types and kinds. Also includes 
Iconrvfiesler. IconLab, and others great utilities to heip generate icons. 
WB10: Virus Killers - The latest and best VirusX(4 rj). Kvf2.l], and 
ZeroVirus III 

WB11: Business - C : erh[ J 0), linally a full featured business accounting PD 
program for ihe small to medium company Includes receivables, payables, 
end ol month and uch more. 



WB12: Disk UHHtles This grom disk is loaded with wonderful utilities for 
everything including making disk labels, disk cataloging, dtsk optimising, d sk 
and tile recovery archive and organizing, and a'l sons ol Me manipulation. A 
must nave 1 

WB1 3: Printer Drivers and Generator ovar 70 different drivers, and il 
these don's do It with PnDrvGen you can mako your own. 
WB15: Business - This disk contains a spreadsheet, a database, a 
projeci/iirne- management program and I nanc'El analysis (stacks). 
WB16: Business - This d^sk contains an inventory manager, a loan analysis 
program, a great calendar/scheduler, a rolode* program, and pennywiso a 
good "Cash Book" accounting lor home or office. 

WB18: WordText Processors - This disk contains lha Dest editors. 
Includes, To tfPIu 5 (v2.2o) a full featured word processor, Dme[v1 35) a groat 
programmers edrtor with strong macro features.TeicED'(v2.8) an enhanced 
Emacs typo editor, and a spoil checker. 

V/B2Q: General Interest - DiskSalv Vt.42 a dsk reooveiy program for all 
Amiga Me systems. Fu D^k tfi anotner fe& lecavefy program with features 
DiSkSatv doesn't have, 3DL0ck gives a 3D appearance to your WcikBench. 
Clean Vt.Oi a piogram to defragment memory. Tracer ■ trace any part of an 
image 

WB22; FOMS #3 - Several mare great fonts. These, I ke the Other font disks 
work creat with Dpsim and WYSIWYG wo:d processors. 
WB23: Graphics and Plotting ■ Plot {20D] a three dmensiOAat mathemati- 
cal tufiction plotter. Can plot any user defined function. Be25urf2 ■ produce 
awesome pictures of objects one could turn on a lathe Can also map iff 
image files onto any surface that it can draw Now ccmpatible with most 3D 
packages, arid VSCreen - makes a Virtual screen anywhere, great for DTP 1 
WB25^Educatlonal - On [his disk are two programs ttiai can generate maps 
of differing types. Woilti Data Base uses the CIA $ data base to generate 
detailed maps of any entered user global coordinate;. Also Parade* a great 
demonstration at Albert Emste-n General Theory ol Relativity. 



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WB26: Disk Utilities #2 ■ MrBackup. KwicXBncVup wo well done utilities to 
do harddisk and floppy dis* backups. FileMast ■ a binary hie editor. 
Labeipriffier ■ Disk label pnnter with very powerful features. 
WB27: Magel - 25 Patrick Nagei pictures of beautiful women. 
W929: Graphics and Sound - This disk has several different Mandelbrot 
type programs lor generating stunning graphics. Includes, Mandel Mountains - 
a realistic terrain generator, Fracgon - generated recursive Iractals from user 
input. Mandulbrot and Tmandel - two last mandol&rot generators, also Wlostra 
- the best IFF display program to date, will display ALL IFF's including 
Dynamic HAM and Sound - a great IFF sound player, will play anything. Try 
thiSdtsHI 

WB33:Clrcult Board Design > several terrific routines for trie electronic 
enthusiast, deluding PCBeco. ■ a circuit board design tool, LoglcLab - circuit 
logic tester, and Mead ( 1 .26] a well done new release of this PD CAD pro- 
gram, now comes wth predrawn common circuit components lor Insartion 
into schematics. 

WB34: Utilities - Several well done utilities, some will require moderate 
knowledge Of 3 CLI or Shell for setup, Chatter Bo* - this flne will play any 
user dehned sound after any event (it?, disk insert, mouse click, disk 
removal..,). . Artm - The Amiga real lime monitor, gives you lull control of the 
Amiga OS, very powerful program, Helper • help program to make learning 
tne CLI easier, andmnio' 

WB35: 3D Graphics - Tift 0;sk contain* several neat programs to use with 
your 3d modeling raylraang programs SdFonls - Full vector font set for use 
with 3d programs. FonlMakor ■ make 3d fonts from any system font. 
Make3DShape - create 3il shapes from arty Image. DumptolFF ■ create 3c 
animations preserves pallet, and WortdSd ■ n demo program cl a from end tor 
use with DKBRender. 

WB36; Graphics - On this disk are several programs to create stunning 
grap-i!caE images inducing, UPath ■ creates swirl ng galaxy images, Roses - 
procuce an unlimited number of vgnations of images that a symmetrically 
Similar !o a rose. SimGen - display those spectacular images as part qf your 
woikbenck screen, and SayShaOe " a ^fY good raytracing program, create 
your own beautilui 3d graphic models with (his one! 

WB37: Educational ■ Educational games and puzzles that cover math, geog- 
raphy, spoiling, and books Ages6-15 

WB3fl: Plotting and Graphics ■ Plotxy is the most powerful lull featured plot- 
ting package. Used by many colleges and universities. A welcome addition tr> 
our ibrary 1 ' Highly recommended. Plans - a Incredbly well done Computer 
Aided Drafting program, very lull featured. Tossolator ■ a program that helps 
generates fantastic looking, recursive M.C. Ecshor type pjciu'es 
WB39: Music ■ Intuitracker s a German offer- no of an exquisitely well done 
program that allows you to olay music on your Amiga with CD Dee controls. 
Lets you strip out music from your favorite games or others and include them 
in your music library. 

WBJQ: Music - "CD an a disk", 90 minutes of mode'n music on this well pre- 
sented collection. Requires 2 drives or HO 

VKB41! Music MED an incredibly well done, tu'l lealured music editOT. 
Create your own stunning music directly on your the Amiga Simitar to 
SoundTrachor but better. Very powerful easy to use program. Version 3.20. 
which r. compatatfe with WB2 04 

WB43: Business - This r>-.k contains AnalyiiCalc ■ probably the most paw 
erful spreadsheet program on the Amiga. A lull leatured spreadsheet with 
many features expected in a commercial package Requiies I 2 MB ol mem- 
ory 1 

WS<tB: Clip Art - HighRes clip art with thB tallowing motifs - embellishments 
(borders, dodads ,,..}. people, and transportation. 

WB47: Clip Art ■ HighRes clip art with the following motifs - hair, drafting. 
summer, animals and maclcod. 

WB4B: Clip Art ■ HighRes clip art with the following mollis - Holidays, music. 
medical, and misc. 

VYE49ABC:Anlmation Sampler - On this three disk sampler set (counts as 
two dis*ts) are some ol the best animations that have been created over tre 
last three years Several examples of "Movie" type animations some with 
Spectacular raytraced reality [cooiroby. watch, spigot and egg) Also several 
eu rape an stylo or "Demo" animation with mcrodiWe graphics and outstanding 
electronic music [akcllighl. copoisme, doc. dps20iO. impact, and logodemo) 
These truly show oil the creative edoe of an Amigal 

WB50: Animation - Seven of the best european style animations or 
Demos", intruding ■ sdejitJic <J51i. subway (a U.S. entrant, also our favorite). 
sunnde, Lhrstdemo. tn;ghi, wanes, and woow. 

WB53: Graphics - Raylractng programs generate absolutely stunning realis- 
tic oakmg planes, rockets, buildings-..., and surreal images otlen consisting ol 
highly polished spheres and objects, C-Ligh| i$ the most powerful EASY-TO- 
USE c-f it s kind we have seen to date. This is easily better, and more lull tea- 
tuied, than similar commercial programs costing m the hundreds ol dollars. 
Also. sMovie ■ a full featured wideo text titter similar to ProVidoo, Broadcast 



Tiller. Great video scrolling, wipes, special eltects, and more... 
WB54: Printing Tnis disk contains several routines to help with the chore 
of printing. Includes Gothic - Finally a Banner printer for the PD" PnntStudio - 
a woli implemented a: l purpose printer- utility wiin a very comfortable graphic 
interface and many advanced feaiuios, Ula - with ease, print ASCII files to a 
PostScript printer, and many more. 

WB55: Application ■ XCopylll - a full loatured disk copier. maKe backups of 
copy protected disks RoadRoute ■ lind the quickest route from one city io 
another, h^hway description inciuded. Dia'y - a diary program like "Do-ugy 
Howard H.D", Cal ■ a calendar program. Wagman <■ a database tailored to 
maintain records on artjcfes and publications. 

WB57: Animation ■ This disk has several "Demo" style animations. 
including, Biitier. LoHy, Sun5, vemgo, vortex, and xenmorph. 
WB59; Buslneaa - contains a great, very lull featured stock market lechnical 
analysis and tracking program, also an appointment calendar, and more. 
WB6i: Intermediate Utilities. - includes programs to help to crastieaty 
decrease flicker in interface and hires modes (arrtifliCk), art Atan-S1 emulator, 
an epram prograrnnter. turn your amiga mm an eight channel digital data 
analyzer or oCilloscope. and more. 

WB62: Midi Utilities - Several useful midi utilities including, programs to 
transfer to and from several music programs to midi. a midi syse* handler, a 
midi recorder with timebase, display midi info, file sequence player, and a 
few scores. 

WB63: Disk Utilities #3 - Several hghly recommended programs to Aid in 
removing dupl cate lies from your hard driv^, performing tie backups. Binary 
editing, last formating, file recovery, disk track recovery, and forced DISK 
VALlDATIOM ol conupl dlsks. 

WB66: Icons *2- Lot's ol neat icons Also several wondodul programs lhal 
to let you ceale yoJt own icons, modily and manipulate icons and mlp struc- 
tures. 

WB68 :Music UlilJties • several good utilities tor the Amiga music enthusiast. 
Includes, Noi&eiracAsr - a great music creation program, Son:x2MOD ■ con- 
verts sonic to .mod 1,les which ihyn can be used by nosetracker. saundtrak- 
er, and LIED. Spua<e:£im - a speaker design tool dome- Wonders cund is an 
additive harmonic nstrument design tool with a separate envelope design 
wmpow and 16 relative harmonic strength and phase a.ngle controls. 
W669; Music - Ths disk has over 90 minutes of classical and modern elec- 
tronic music (or you Amiga. 

VJB7Q: Desk Top Pub ■ Atcp - transfer Macintosh screen fonts. Mac or IBM 
formal AFM melric liles. "0 Amiga screen fonts and PPage .metric Irles With 
this program, open the door to the libraries of Adobe and PostScript lonls' 
Calendar ■ month templates m PagoStream lorm Post - a lull featured 
poslscnpt file dspiay and print iftty, 

WB75: Music ■ over 100 instruments lues (inst) and sampte sound files (.as) 
for your mus.-c programs. 

WB76: Applications Tnis disk comains Slichery ■ a oilen requeslod kmtiing 
design program. Lotto - a rather complete tottery tracking and prediction utili- 
ty. SSS - this screen capture program can grab almost any screen including 
games. Today - a personal calender, Tarot - fortune teller, and Grammar - 
grammar cnecker. 

WB79: Home A Business Accounting Includes Ckbacct - the most com- 
plete checkbook accounting program going, LCDCalc - this well done calcula- 
tor has a very large display and Operates from the keyboard Or rrtOu&e, 
Mileage master - monitor your automobie mileage with this mioage log, 
Grammar - a grammar checker, and Worldiime - find, out what time n Is in up 
to 50 global dies 

WB81: Great Applications - DataEa$y a very easy to use, database pro- 
gram Don t let the ease ol use tool you. nis is a very Full feature database 
program incEudng full pnnter control lar address labels ard mail merge appli- 
cations, Also includes. TypeTu! a good typing tutor, Rl_G a luJl featured Jabel 
printer. Banner, a multi-font banner maker, and Budge! a home accounting in 
a program, Highly recommended. 

WB82: Animations - Four full length, well done "movie" style animations. 
Including. Coyote. Jugg'erll. GhogtPoOl, ard MecJianix. 2 disks, counts as 1 . 
WQ93: Computer Ad - this disk has some of the best Amiga generated com- 
puter art that we have collected in the past 5 years. 

WBS5: Graphics - Contains several programs for manipulating 24 Bit color 
Images (ham-el and a rather nice iff image processing package. 
WB$lj: Centurion Press - An electronic newspaper ■ requires Amiga Vision. 
WB8SASC : The Complete Bible A inree dak se|. with the entire teit ol the 
New Testament and Old Testament-King James version Great searcrVpnni 
utilities. Three disk sel. counts as three. 

WB90: Rippers, Slrlppors and Boals - For the Amiga music enthusiast, this 
disk contains man/ programs designed: strip music from your favorite games 
and programs. Music can then be played wilh ysw favorite Pd Music pro- 
gram. Also contains Drums, a very nice drum machine. This disk requires 
some knowietXje of the CLI 

WB93: Workbench Extras 02 This disk contains the utilities that 
Commodore should have shipped with the Amiga, VirusX4.0, Snap. FwDisk 
(recover corrupt/deleted files), Disk Optimizer Ifloppy & turd). MaciMI (screen 
blanker, hotkey, mouse acceL macro, clock utility), GOMF {a guru buster) and 
PnntStudio 

WB95r Checkbook Accountant 2.T - This is definitely commoioal grade: 
we've seen many checkbook programs and this is absolutely the best Full 
budgeting, transaction recording and report generation. 
WB96: Dupers ■ Contains Xcgpyl.ll & Nib which will backup copyprotected 

piograms. PreeCcpy lemons copy protection liom several programs, and 

SupeiDuper will cank-out fast AmigaDOS copies, 

WB98: Business ■ Includes BBaseii a nee. powerlui database; BizCalc— a 

personal or mortgage loan calculator witf- amcrtealion capabilitjes, Loop — a 

flowchart maker, Formmaker - desgn pro'essicnal forms on your Epson l_Q- 

2500 compatiple printer. 

WB&9: Lifestyles ■ Includes AGene — family tree program that tracks up to 

firjrj peopte'm a rh ages/etc. Landscape is a CAD_ program lo create 

gardens' landscapes Loom simulates an B harness loom: experiment wrth 

partem design m ari instant feedback envi-onmenj. 

WB10I : Chcmeslhetlcs - is a program 'hat displays molecules as a calotte 

model. This kind ol display contains a certain esthetic attitude, even 



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V/B102: Telecommunications - Captains tne programs NComm 2.0 and 
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DD45: AREXX Piograms - This disk contains several userul arexs pfograms 
and esam^es, PopCLM The latest ol a must have utility. 
DD47: Pascal ■ This dis'k contains everything needed to program in Pascal. 
Includes A$Bk 1.1-2) 6800D assembler. Slink linking software and PCO (1.0) 
a modest Pascal sub-sol compiler 

DP-S9; C Compiler ■ contains ;c(1 01) lully K&R. zcc(1.0] tront end. 
A66k|l 2j assembler, Blihk linker. 

DD50: AReix #Z - a must have set of tutorials on ARe» and several useful 
examples and utilities for ARexn development. 

DD51 : Circuit Analysl 9 - Aspics (2.3) A lull featured program lor electric cir- 
cuit analysis. 

DD52: Scientific - includes Elements - an Incredibly well done periodic ladle 
piogram witn source, Scientific plotting • over rjook ol Lattice C source rou- 
tines that can be included in your own p-ograms. 

DD54: Compression - This disk is loaded with all of IN best l-iie comprer,- 
s on programs and aids for the Amiga Many of the programs can be used by 
the new user. Includes Arc, Lhatc. Lhwarp. Pkax. Powe-Packer a mmst have 
by all. Z p. Warp, and Zoo. Also IFFcrunch an excelled compression for IFF 
files. 

DD55: ARiP - On this disk you writ find the complete ArpRe.13 release flCud- 
ing ihe lull user docs, the hJ Developers guide. ARP is the otfioai 
AmigaDDS Resource Project (ARP) release 1 .3. ARP makes many improve- 
ments lo AmrgaDOS and makes your system easier ;o use from the CLI. 
DD57: Advanced Ulllillos - tfsh - 1iko Cross-dos. copies fifes to and from 
MS-DOS, Pal-NTSC - convert any pal program to NTsC and; vice versa, Also 
several utilities thai improve your startup-sequence, plus 25 more programs 
DD62: Basic and JCscherne - Cursor • a full featured Amiga Basic compile', 
soasic and Kext ■ several wonderful routines to help m oas'C programers. and 
Xschemo - an interpreted object onented fanguage. 

DD66: Programming ToolBox - Many programs to help m your development 
efforts (tiosI for C some lor base) Includes programs to generate requesters, 
an mcrecible spntemakef toolbox, lo greatly aid compiling, convert DPaint 
brushes to C structures, a great library manager, and many more wonderful 
time, savers! 

OOSJhflCvanced Utilities ■ SefNet and ParfSlet - Connect two Amiga's and 
share resources. MemMonilor - Similar to WFrag Oji greatly improved. 
SelBcto- - put menus on your workbench screen, and more, 
DOn AftB:C Compiler - This disk contains DICE, Maitbew Dillon's full fea- 
tured, powerful C compiler and environment system. 2 Disks, counts as 2. 
007Z: VT Emulalora Contains three powerful full featured VT emulators, 
with many advanced features including Kermit. Xmooom and Tohtronix proto- 
cols VaiTerm. VLT, and more. 

DQ77: Fortran - Contains a full featuied FOHTPAN77 environmental devel- 
opment system. Also contains EiAsm a strongly macro dependent 68000 
assembler. 

DD7S: Menus & System Enhancements - Several neat programs to aid m 
launching programs Irom special icons |Next computer style), addmg 
WorkBench menus and more. Also contains many use'u! progiams to deter- 
mine ooeration system configuration, memory usage, load and many other 
important utilizations. 

DDS1: AHexx Tutorial Includes several sample Arexx scnpls and sample 
programs. Also includes APio; a library that gives you access to Intuition 
from w^hin Are*x scripts 

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that increases your health 

meter. 

lb get anywhere fast, you 
need lo visit one of the 
shops located in the game. 
There vou can purchase 
one of 16 defensive and 
offensive items, ranging all 
the way from simple health 
potions and multi-direction 
weapons to such exotic and 
powerful items as chain 
mail, force fields, and Hying 
machines. You don't need 
coins to buy them; instead, 
you must find the right 
combination of herbs and 
live pels (and the pels often 
don't just stand still waiting 
for you lu grab them). As 
furi Iter self-preservation, 
you can replenish lost lives 
in three ways. 

The puzzles in Elf involve 
more than just finding a key 
to open a door to the next 
level. You must interact with 
people and determine what 




Collect points, pets, plants, and spells to rescue your girlfriend. 



they want from you before 
they will give you the infor- 
mation or object you need. 
Here, Elf uses a multicom- 
mand interaction screen thai 
lets you carry on limited 
conversations. 

The game is presented as 
well as it plays. The graph- 
ics and sound effects arc 
great. Elf allows you to save 



your position, hut only at 
the end of a level. It sup- 
ports extra memory, multi- 
ple drives, accelerators, and 
look-it-up-in-the-manual 
copy protection. 

Overall, Elf is fundamen- 
tally just a medieval-fantasy 
platform game, but it is also 
one of the best of this genre 
I have seen. Try it! 



Bo Jackson Baseball; 
MicroLeague Baseball: 



The Manager's Challenge 



By Peter Olafson 

Earl Weaver Baseball (Elec- 
tronic Arts) has been the Cal 
Ripken of Amiga baseball 
games. It seems like it's been 
around forever, and yet it 
still plays belter than just 
about any of (he competition. 
Now a couple of rookies are 
vying for Earl's spot: Data 
East's Bo Jackson Baseball 
(S49.95) and MicroLeague 
Sports' MicroLeague Base- 
ball: The Manager's Chal- 
lenge ($49.9:5). While neither 
one is the all-around equal of 
old Karl, each lends some 
sparkle to the diamond. 

Bo Jackson Baseball 

Bo Jackson Baseball is bound 
to a be a hit with the action 
crowd. The reincarnation of 
Cinemaware's TV Sports: 
Baseball, it's a big, beautiful 
game, with fat colors, lluid 
animation, and lots of digi- 
tized sound. It's also a damn 
sight tougher than most of 



the action-oriented games. 

The balling is more mur- 
derous than Murderer's 
Row: Tile pitches come in 
fast, and it can take quite a 
while to liud the right spot 
on the screen to use for 
triggering your swing. Pitch- 
ing (from the same umpire- 
like perspective) uses a rou- 
tine taken from free-throw 
shooting in TV Sports: Bas- 
ketball. A ball moves back 
and forth behind the plate. 
You hit the fire button when 
it's where you want (he pilch 
to go, and tug the joystick to 
determine its speed and 
breaking direction. (Unfor- 
tunately, there's no way to 
take the batter high or low.) 

Fielding's the easiest part. 
You guide the flashing field- 
er to a marker indicating 
the spot to which the ball is 
headed, then make him 
jump or dive for it. 

Those are just the funda- 



mentals. You can choose 
among 26 teams — drawn 
from major-league cities — 
and play exhibition mulches 
or a I 62-game schedule. An 
excellent editor permits you 
to set rotation, pick versus- 
leity and versus-righly line- 
ups, and change event hing 
about a player except the 
pattern of his shorts. Unfor- 
tunately, only three fictional 
stadiums are provided, and 
the players are imaginary 
creatures. (Ah, for an Major 
League Players Association 
license, eh?) 

There are a few flies in die 
clubhouse. Bo is a bear with 
chip RAM under a half- meg 
Agnus, and you'll need to 
close all windows and end all 
tasks lo avoid crashes within 
the game — especially when 
running from hard disk. The 
compuier-versus-compuier 
mode doesn't work, and I've 
Continued an p. 96. 



From p. 82. 

and carried around without its use 
being readily apparent (It also may 
not have any use at all.) 

Try to grab everything, but carry 
only what you need. Keep what you 
think you're going to need soon at 
some central location nearby. If you 
start to run out of room, check your 
spell recipes, and see what items 
you can convert into incantations. 
It's much easier to carry weightless 
spells than their components. (But 
don't be too hasty; there are some 
one-of-a-kind items that you need 
in their original state, and which, 
once converted, can't be restored.) 

Down in the basement, you can 
pass the time of night with the old 
Indian. He's a solemn bloke, and, 
unlike some other creatures in 
these parts, he doesn't mutate into 
a monster, but he'll give you the 
lowdown on what's happened. He's 
properly sensitive on certain issues, 
however, and he'll clam up if you 
start making Indian jokes, so be a 
grown-up, OK? 

Now we're just about ready for 
the studios themselves. The easiest 
one to tackle is the haunted house 
(door #2). Once in, hang a left in the 
foyer, and you'll enter a cozy parlor. 
Check out the suits of armor lor bet- 
ter protection, and the door to the 
right for your first encounter with 
the Nether World. This spectre 
won't hurt you, but neither will he 
get out of your way. He's easily dis- 
tracted, however, by a toy from the 
playroom. (Up the right stairs, bear 
right and then left down the hall; 
it's the door on the left.) 

Inside the library, you should try 
to read a book from every shelf — 
it's not just useful, it's fun — and be 
sure to collect the formula that will 
fall out of one. 

On to the dining room, where a 
couple of gross sights await you — 
one under the silver platter and the 
other through the service window. 
Courage spell or no courage spell, 
there's just one way to go at the 
second of these: You're going to 
pass out, you big chicken, and 
you're going to wake up in the 
freezer with a stack of bodies (I was 
wondering where everyone was) 
and no obvious exits. 

You can collect a few goodies 
here — the boots on one of the bod- 
ies are another good piece of ar- 
mor — but how to get out? The tem- 
perature gauge beside the door is 

Continued on p. 96. 



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A-GENIE A073 Good genealogy program - trace your 
family history, keep track of where your roots really are 
(1Mb) 

ADVENTURE SOLUTIONS A001 2 disks of great 
adventure solutions! A must-have for adventure hair- 
pullers (2) 

AIR WaRRIGI A002 Flight simulation program - fun! 
ALGORYTHMS A199 MIDI program for synthetic music 
creation - give your creativity a boost and enhance your 
MIDI 

ALL NEW STAR TREK A003 Tobias Richter's great 
new version of this classic - all the rage in the UK now (2) 
AMIS ASE A075 One of the best Amiga databases 
AMIBASE PROFESSIONAL A153 A superb database 
system 

AMIC ASH A072 Brand new bank management program 
- easy to use and a great way to put your Amiga to useful 
work! 

AMOK A186 Your robot is trapped in a strange world 
(1Mb) 

AMOS ASTEROIDS Ai85 Four versions on this disk of 
the arcade game, guaranteed to give endless zapping 
fun 

AMOS BINGO/CRACK THE CODE A183 2 popular 
games on this disk - bingo lovers will want to stay home - 
plus extras 

AMOS MULTIPART A184 Another good AMOS paint 
program 

AMOSAGRAM A190 An anagram solving game - great 
fun! 

ANALYTiCALC A076 Definitive spreadsheet type utility 
(2) 

ANIMATED POINTER PACK A074 Disk full of cute 
animated pointers - this one will keep you busy for hours 
tryinrj them cu; 

ANTE? & SLOT CARS A004 Graphic role-playing and 
car game - great fun with appeal for all your family 

ANT1 LEMMINGS A1S6 Power animation - fantastic (2) 

(2Mb) 

ART OF MED A202 Disk full of more MED muse scores 

ASI LABEL PRINTERS A077 All the best label 

programs on one disk 

" MAGIC A203 Collection of 



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soundtrackers 

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A1 57 Anim from 

Schwartz featuring 

Amy squirrel (1.5Mb) 

British Spectrum 

game conversion 
AUTOMATED 
LIGHT A158 Great 
battlestar galactica 
type animation - must 
get (4) (3Mb) 

A1 70 Good version of 
the classic 'bomber' 
game 

A152 Beautiful clip art 

converted from the 

PC - exlrernely 

popular in the UK 

BIORHYTHMS & 

STARCHART A078 

Check btorhythms 

and chart the stars! A 

better program of its 

type - check if out 

BLACKBELT A181 

Chop the Weeks in 

this martial arts game 

BLACKJACK A007 A good version of the classic card 

game 

Blackjack trainer A192 a good tutor for this ever 

popular game - improve your odds for the real table play! 

A193 Get Herbert back home to his village! 
BUCK ROGER - A008 Great shoot-em-up from the C64 
days - an interesting, fun and absorbing proggy. this one! 
> CARD MAKER A079 Make your own with 
this useful utility, and save time and money at the printers 
BUSY BEE A154 Cute anim of a freaky bee - looks 
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BUZZED A159 Great animation of wasp crashing into 

things - you'll need the extra memory though, but 

GREAT! (3) (3Mb) 

C-LIGHT RAY TRACER A080 Commercial ray tracing 

package is now PD - a fascinating graphics utility - great 

results 

CASSETTE labeler A188 Great utility for tape 

collections 

DOOM A009 Easy graphic adventure - 
good for beginners and cunningly addictive for the 
veteran hacker 

CHEMESTHETICS A081 Chemistry program for 
molecule display - the marvels of mother nature unfolded 
before you! 

CHINESE CHECKER'- A010 Computer version of the 
boardgame classic - always great for family fun 

A083 8 disks of some of the best clip art 
around - you will NOT be disappointed with this set (8) 

& WORLD A011 Two great adventures 
from Software Distillery - highly recommended to you 
adventurers 
COUNTACH A084 3 disks of various and useful clip art 

CROSSFIRE A169 Good kids' game - keep them 

occupied for ages. What a great remedy for Nintendo 

boredom! 

CROSSWORD COMPILER A012 A quality puzzle 

creator and editor - if you like crosswords this will give 

you pleasure! 

CURSER BASIC COMPILER A085 Speed up those 

BASIC programs, and free yourself from interpreter 

constraints 

OARKSTAFF A013 Spectrum-emulated text adventure 

game 

DARK STAR UTtLrTlE? A086 Another disk full of utilities 

for all - you won't want lo be without this disk in your 

collection 

DART ANIMATION A155 Dart passing through an egg 

animation - you have lo see it to believe it. very over- 
easy! 

DATING GAME A160 Schwartz classic animation (2) 

(3.5Mb) 

A087 A good ray tracing program complete with 

some nee pictures - Shows Ihe graphics power of Ami! 

SHER UTILITIES A088 168 useful utilities - 

something for all 

DEMOLITION MISSION A176 Another good version of 

the classic 'bomber' game- very playable 

DESKBENCH A089 Nice alternative workbench, icons 

etc. This is a really neat program! (3) 

DESKTOP PUBLISHER A090 From 
Germany now in English translation - a 
MUST rWVE! 
DIRECT ACTION A091 A useful utility for 
editing animation sequences, 
loads of features 
DOPE INTROMAKER A092 
Make you own intros with this 
utility 

DRAGON'S CAVE A014 Nice 
dungeon type game with good 
graphics - you may spend 
hours! 

DUNGEON DELVER A179 
Roam around mazes, collect 
keys etc. (2) 

DYNAMITE FONTS I A093 
Excellent fonts for use in DPaint 
etc. Add these to your collection 
now! 

DYNAMITE FONTS II A094 
Very popular fonts disk - stacks 
of IFF fonts - a veritable 
treasure trove for you artists 
EDUCATION SET A095 5 
disks packed with good 
educational programs, with 
something to interest everyone 
in the family (5) 

ETERNAL ROME & 

DOMINOES A016 Two good 
and stimulating games, get this 
if you're interested in history! 

FONTS A096 More 
excellent IFF fonts for DPaint etc. 
FAMILY HISTORY DATABASE 

A172 Very good genealogy program, keep track ol your 

ancestors and origins (1 Mb) 

RAM MANAGER A098 Lots of fonts plus a 

software RAM switch - a very useful utility for A5O0 users 

FONTS & SURFACES A099 Lots Of useful fonts, 

brushes etc. for DPaint, plus rich textures and backdrops 

for you to use 

FORMS REALLY UNLIMrTED A162 Great forms 

designer program - must have - GREAT for both home 

and office 

^HINE A196 Good simulation of this 

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GALACTIC FOOD FIGHT A020 Fight your way through 
ice cream 8 fruit! A popular game in Europe at the 
moment 

GENESIS DEMO A100 Superb fractal generator - very 
good 

GRAPHICS CONVERTERS A149 Convert graphics, 
format PC disks elc. An absolute essentia! for 
transferring art formats 

GRAPHICS UTILITIES A102 Useful, graphics oriented 
programs which will assist you in the manipulation of your 
art 

GROWTH A021 Realty good game in which you aim for 
the brain! Stimulate your own brain cells with this nifty 
escapade! 

HACK A022 Good text adventure in the Infocom tradition 
HAMLAB A103 Convert VGA PC pictures to Ami HAM 
with this utility • opens up a true wealth of pre-created 
artwork 

HANGMAN A194 Good, fun version with word editor 
HARD DRIVE UTILS A104 A must have for hard drive 
owners 

HOLLYWOOD TRIVIA A023 Loads of questions in this 
good trivia game - so you think you know your 
entertainers huh?! 

HOLY GRAIL A024 One of the best text adventures 
around 

HYPER BALL A195 Latest version of woodenball, an 
excellent game that will keep you burning the midnight oil 
and some.... 

ICONMANIA A105 Loads ol programs for icon creation 
with many icons! Great for hackers, or enhancing your 
system 

ICONS A106 This disk is just crammed full of varied & 
useful icons - redesign the way your workbench looks 
and feels 

IFF SAMPLES A204 Great samples from the Kawai K1 
digital synthesizer, ready for play on your Amiga - 
breathtaking! 

K.'.PLODER A107 A very good crunching program - very 
efficient in terms of time and file size. Great for 
telecomms 

INTERFERON PRO A 108 Create protection bootblocks 
against viruses - we may see Michelangelo on the Ami 
soon - prepare! 

JAMCRACKER A205 4 channel chip music sequencer - 
handles samples also. Get this one with A204 above 
JAZZBENCH A109 An alternative workbench preferred 
by many, another disk that will change the way your Ami 
looks 

JETMAN A025 A British classic conversion of Jetpac 
JR-COMM 1.2 A110 The definitive modem software - 
must have! This is the one that we use and is VERY 
powerful 

KARATE WORM A198 Very nice platform game, 
jumping over worms etc! Keep the kids (or yourself) 
amused for hours! 

KAWAI K 1 A21 Editor/librarian for MIDI users with Kt 
KAWAI K-1 A21 1 Editor/librarian for MIDI users with K4 
KILLER CARS AQ26 A good car game with filled vector 
graphics, fun and intriguing to see this clever graphics 
style 

KING JAMES BIBLE A1 1 1 Old and New Testament 
and text reader. In ASCII format so you may import to 
your files (4) 

LAMER GAME A027 Similar to Operation Wolf, shoot- 
em-up 

LANGUAGES DISK A112 Forth, Modula 2, X-Usp and 
Logo 

LARN A028 Another well-respected text adventure 
game 

LASE RZON E A030 Good old C64 classic arcade game 
LAST HOPE A148 Priceless when you've just erased a 
valuable file! We define this one as an essentia! addition! 
LEARN & PLAY A029 Great fun for the kids on two 
disks (2) 

LETTR1X A032 Good puzzle game with a fun Tetris 
flavour 

LORE OF CONQUEST A033 Space trading game, 
dungeons & dragons style, with an addictive theme - 
enjoy! 

M-CAD A113 Computer aided design ■ good quality 
(1Mb) 

MACVIEW. DRAW. ROTATE A114 Three good 
graphics programs - unusual, but useful for designers, 
etc.! 

MARBLE SLIDE A034 Puzzle game in which you build 
up slides, and frustrate yourself in the process. Fun 
though 

r/ED 3.2 A200 Latest verson of this superb music 
sequencer - great! A real must-haye for budding Ami 
musicians 
MED MUSIC DISK A201 Some nice MED music on this 



disk 

MESSY-SID A115 Easy to use PC-AMIGA file transfer 

program, very high in the UK popularity charts, this one 

MIDI DISK A20?Lots of useful utilities for MIDI 

MIDNIGHT THIEF A067 A great text aoVenture for 

hackers 

MISSILE COMMAND A177 Good version of the ever 

popular classic arcade, a hit on the UK BBC micro when 

it appeared 

MISSION X A070 Shoot-em-up type arcade game with 

excellent graphics - well, we think you'll like il anyway 

MOBEO A116 A good bob and sprite editor for 
programmers 

MYSTIX HARDWARE MODS At 17 Documents disk for 
hardware modifications - interesting and curious contents 
NAPOLEONIC WAR SIMULATOR A036 A good 
strategy game with a requirement for a good, strategical 
battle plan 

NCOMM A118 Latest version of this excellent comms 
program 

NESTOR CARD GAME A037 A novel treat for card 
i rssks 

NETHACK A038 A very popular DSD style game (2) 
NO MAN'S LAND A039 High-tech war games in shoot- 
em-up style - requires nimble fingers and less ol the 
strategy! 

NOISETRACKER A207 Music sequencer with loads of 
functions - if you're into music on the Ami then try this out 
NORTH C A119 The complete 'C compiler by Steve 
Hawtin - another major seller across the pond - excellent 
value (2) 

NU GAME A040 Shoot-em-up game with good graphics 
- quite difficult and certain to trigger your ludest profanities 
C EMULATOR A120 Needs MSDOS to run, gives 
CGA graphics output. An interesting disk for 
experimentation... 

PETER'S ouest A041 Rescue the maiden in this fun 
platform game, but don't give up too easily. Persevere for 
a good end! 

PDGE KINGDOM A180 Another dungeon style game of 
quality and frustrating design ■ can you beat the 
enemies? (2) 

POM POM GUNNER A042 Latest version of this 
Beachead clone, popular now both here and in Europe - 
get it and enjoy! 

PRINTER DRIVER GENERATOR A122 Design your 
own drivers 

property market A043 Become a millionaire 
before you retire at 55! Donald Trump uses it for his 
decision-making 

QBASE A123 Good database system, easy to use, with 
full searching facilities - great for both beginners and old 
hands 

QUICKBENCH A124 Another alternative workbench 
system, very clever! We love evaluating these - as much 
fun as games 

A182 Another well laid out drawing package 
RAINBOW WARRIOR A164 Paint with coppers and 
save them out! We don't mean British policemen, 
programmers will know! 

RAPHAEL'S REVENGE A044 Mutant Turtle game done 
in SEUCK - give the kids a Turtle treat with this shoot- 
em-up! 

RAZOR A125 Graphics rippers, virus killers, disksalv, 
powerpacker - for the more experienced Amiga user, this 
one 

RETURN TO EARTH A045 Space trading game in 
classic UK 'Elite' vein - another popular game in the UK 
on the BBC 

RIM DATABASE A126 Comprehensive relational 
database - powerful, with the abflity to cross-reference 
data files 

RINGS OF ZO.'J A046 Absorbing adventure and strategy 
game - what more can we say about good adventures? 
ROBOCOP A015 A shoot-em-up (language may offendl 
ROT A127 A simple but very popular 3D drawing 
package 

SCOPE IU A126 Structured clip art for PPage, 
PStream etc. 

SCOPE A129 More structured and useful clip art 
SCUM HATERS A048 Shoot-em-up done in SEUCK by 
Brazzle Atkins - the title does fair justice to the 'plot' 
SEALANCE A049 A submarine strategy game - quite 
sophisticated - good 

SERENE II A(B1 Follow up to SERENE SHOOT UP 
below 

SERENE SHOOT UP A050 Another quality game for lire 
button freaks! 

SHAPES A187 Very intriguing, mind-boggling puzzle 
game 

SIMON & SPACE MATHS A173 Two good educational 
programs here - recommended 



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SIMPSONS GAME A052 A vertical scroll game done in 

SEUCK 

SNAKE IN THE GRASS A197 Collect mushrooms and 

toadstools! 

SOMETHING FOR NOTHING A130 Full of video utiis, 

fonts etc, although you'll have to pay us the cost of the 

disk! (2) 

IZOBAN C A131 Another popular 'C programming 
environment, great for learning this powerful language 
SPANISH TUTOR A17S Good language learning 
program 

ST EMULATOR A132 Run Atari ST software on your 
Amiga - needs 2 drives - very useful if you have access 
to ST progs! 

ST-80 BEAST SAMPLES A208 Pan flute sounds Irom 
Beast, Beast il. Some of the best Psygnosis sounds 
created to date 

STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION A053 Strategy 
game in Hires, needs 1Mb, but well worth the extra 
memory! 

STAR TREK THE 
SHOOT-EM-UP 
A054 The classic 
done in SEUCK, and 
a pleasant change 
Irom Trekkie 

'simulations' 
STORYLANC A071 
Two very good kids' 
games, great fun 
SUPER SKODA 
CHALLENGE A066 
Nice new car racing 
game 

SUPERKILLERS 
A133 Kills 190 
viruses stone dead 
TARO'i ii A150 
Read the cards - 
great version (2) 

A055 An 
excellent tennis 

game, needs 1 Mb 
TEXT ENGINE A151 
Another good quality 
word processor 

At 35 
One of the best word 
processors, includes 
spell check and 
numerous extra 
faclities for the 
experienced 

THE INSIDERS' CLUB A0S8 Good stock market game - 
see how far you get! Gives you an insight into the 
markets... 

TH E J AR A057 Very nice little jump and run game 
tile trial A174 Solve the sliding puzzle within the 
time limit! 

A065 Good quality vertical scroll arcade game 
TREASURE SEARCh A161 Find the buried treasure in 
this fun game- another good program on our 
recommended list 

TV GRAPHICS A136 Superb DPainl backdrops and 
some great fonts - get this if you're into Toasters and 
video etc.! (2) 

A137 Another great shareware wordprocessor 
ULTIMATE CARD GAME- A068 Cribbage, Hearts, 
Bluemoon, Patience and Solitaire should be enough to 
keep you busy 

CON DISK A138 Iconmeisler, Iconlab. 
Ironmaster, icons etc Everything you need for icon 
creation 

ULTRAPAINT A139 A nice paint package for IFF 
pictures 

VIDEO APPLICATIONS A141 Assorted proqrams"for 
genlock & video applications - must have this (2) 

SPREADSHEET A142 Easy to use 
spreadsheet based on VC 

WAR OF THE FOUR A191 A good shareware graphical 
adventure game - hours of amusement here 

A069 Superb new 3D vector game - 
you MUST get this one! Absolutely superb! 

A059 Good Boulderdash style game 
WINDOWSBENCH A143 A Windows3/Workbench2 
lookalike, very nice! Spruce up your Ami (2) 
WIZARDS DOMAIN A189 Nicely done graphical 
adventure game 

WIZZY'S QUEST A062 Great arcade game from 
Germany 

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strategy, and the options 
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six for pitching (not count- 
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es), six for infield play, and 
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the key. Use the curling iron from 
Elvira's makeup kit to heat things up, 
and when someone comes to inves- 
tigate the alarm, lay into him. IJust 
be ready first; he's kind of tough.) 

Down to the cellar you go. You 
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upstairs in the kitchen. (Save the 
meat cleaver as a weapon.) You'll 
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corridor down which, from the Oth- 
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houette. Don't worry: there's no 
puzzle here. It's just an illusion to 
keep your blood up.) 

It you take the left stairs and turn 
left, you'll find a bedroom dead 
ahead of you. Dead is right. (Take a 
look at that fellow on the bed.) 
You'll have to fight a spirit far the 
scripts in his hand — he shouldn't be 



much of a challenge — and be sure 
to grab the pictures that fall to the 
floor afterward. Note that you're 
simply told of the pics; they don't 
appear on the screen. Jump to the 
"Roam Scanner" to find them. 

Always look under beds and rugs 
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little button that opens a panel be- 
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you have the crucifix first, and take 
the chalice and the black candles. 
(For some lethal fun, save the game 
and leave the cross behind.) Congrat- 
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Next time, we'll rock the rest of 
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Articles on Video Basics and Videography 
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December 1991 Video. Creating low-cost video 
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Madison, Wl 53713 


(631)36330 


913/354-1146 


One Sony Drive 


608/273-0585 




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Park Ridge, N| 07656 




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201/930-1000' 


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3578 E. Enterprise Drive 


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145 1(1 SW 1 36 St.. Suite 204 


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Miami. FL 33186 


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220 U'esl 2950 South 


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800/327-4482 


212/262-3116 


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Panasonic Communications 


800/433-7572 


Casio 


Schwaniiwall II 


Two Panasonic Way 




570 Mi. Pleasant Ave. 


4600 Dortmund 


Secaucus, NJ 07094 


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Dover, N] 07801 


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61 Clewley Rd. 


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1 Philips Drive. POBox 14810 




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615 521-4316 


1 293 Briardale Lane N.E. 


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602 N. Country fair Drive 


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Phoenix Mieroteehnologies 


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3 Chestnut St. 






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Snllcrn. NY 10901 


Commodore Business Machines 


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1220 Rock St. 


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800/292-7445 


Wesi Chester, PA 19380 


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815/968-2228 


Princeton Graphics Systems 


Titus Software 


215/436-4200 


800/373-770(1 


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28ter Avenue de Versailles 






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93220 Gagny, France 


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Interactive Video Systems 


Roswell, GA 30076 




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7245 Garden Grove Blvd., Suite E 


104/664-1010 


TTR Development 
6701 Scybold Rd. 


San Diego. (.A 92 121 


Garden Grove, CA 92641 


800/221-1490 


619/566-3911 


714/890-7040 




Madison. Wl 53719 






Programs Plus & Video 


608/277-8071 


Dalel Computers 


Loop Technology 


541 Queen St. 




343(1 E. Tropieana, #67 


15355 Barranca Pkwv. 


Chatham, Out. 


Vidia 


Us Vegas, NV 89121 


Irvine, CA 92718 


Canada N7M 2|l> 


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702/736-9100 


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800/782-91 10 






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MegageM 


Progressive Peripherals & 




Digita International 


1903 Adria 


Software 


Videomedia 


Distributed o\ American Software 


Santa Maria, CA 93454 


464 Kalamath St. 


175 Lewis Rd, 




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Denver, CO 8020 1 


San lose, CA 951 11 


Digital Creations 




303/825-4144 


108 227-9977 


2865 Sunrise Blvd., Suite 103 


Megatoon Productions 




800/987-8526 


Kan. Iki Cordova, CA 95742 


POBox 1781 


Radiance Software 




916/344-4825 


Terminal, Que. 


2715 Klein Ret. 


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San |ose, CA 95 lis 


Distributed by American 






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MMR 6SEar.o 33MH2 499 

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SI SI 

Daiaflyer 199 

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A2000 

MEMORY 

B-up!w/2MB S179 

Duuitlytu tWZMB 189 

GVP RAM W/2MB 189 

SPEED 

Combo 25MH/ 4M/1MB 699 

O>nibr>40Hzw4MB 1199 

ComhoSOHzvvMMB 1549 

Prog 68040 w/4MB. -,..1799 

SCSI 

OVP Scries II 179 

Datatlvcr. 79 

IVS Tramp.card Pro 149 

IVSGrwdilam 239 



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Kudos, complaints, comments, concerns, and contributions from our readers. 



CD-ROM Wrinkles 

John Foust's article "Plunging into 
CD-ROM" (Mar., '92) was very infor- 
mative, and it was particularly fascinat- 
ing to learn that many CD-ROMs 
marketed for MS-DOS machines are 
indeed compatible with Amiga CD- 
ROM drives. 

I want, however, to share some facts 
about CD-ROM compatibility that were 
not mentioned in the article. First of 
all, a minimum of one megabyte of 
chip RAM is absolutely necessary to 
run CDTV titles on any Amiga. (CBM's 
CDTV unit has a two-meg Agnus chip 
like the A3000 and some European 
A500s.) I am about to treat my early 
A2000 to a one-meg Agnus upgrade 
for this very reason. 

Also required is CDTV emulation 
software, which is now becoming avail- 
able from Amiga CD-ROM drive/driver 
vendors. In addition, be aware that a 
sizable number of CD-ROM and CDTV 
titles are currently incompatible with 
68030 CPUs and/or AmigaDOS 2.0. 
Caveat emptor! 

I hope these hints help other Amiga 
CD-ROM/CDTV fans avoid these com- 
patibility pitfalls. Thanks for the valu- 
able article; more such (including re- 
views of specific CD titles) would 
certainly be welcome. 

David Levy 
Burlington, Mass. 



Better Software Needed 

I think you're wrong in saying (in 
"Chief Concerns," Feb., '92) that "The 
Amiga, too, can do quite well without 
Lotus 1-2-3 and Dbase." Anyone who. 
does serious work these days needs 
good productivity software. Are you 
saying that such people should buy 
two systems, one for serious work and 
one lor games/video"' Get real. Doug. 
The Amiga may be the black sheep of 
the computer family, but it doesn't 
have to be. 

It would surelv be beneficial to Ami- 



ga owners if persons such as yourself 
would encourage — rather than discour- 
age — developers to write good produc- 
tivity software for the Amiga that could 
compete with that of the Mac and PC. I 
find it very aggravating to spend hun- 
dreds of dollars for Amiga software 
that is not nearly in the same class as 
PC or Mac programs typically costing 
only about 507c more than their Amiga 
counterparts. 

Ross C. Wilkinson 
San Francisco, Calif 



IBM Compatibility 

I am a computer consultant in the 
world of IBM PCs. At home, however, I 
enjoy the ease of use of my Amiga 



Get real, Doug. 
The Amiga may be the 
black sheep or the com- 
puter family, but ii 
doesn't have to be. 



2000. Frankly, it runs rings around the 
PCs, but IBM compatibility is highly 
desirable, so I installed a 286 Bridge- 
board about two years ago. Since then, 
I've extended the PC/AT bus to the last 
two slots and am "fully populated" with 
an internal 2400 baud modem, a Ram- 
Page 8000 memory board, and an 80- 
nieg IDE drive. 

I'd really like to see a 386 Bridge- 
board — one that supports VGA, boots 
from an IDE drive, allows a 9-meg 
address space, and sells for under 
SI 000. Is there any hope? 

John H. Abrams 
Floral Park, Mew York 



Saluting Good Service 

We often read about how bad some 
companies' customer service is, but this 
letter is to say just the opposite! 

I bought a G-Force 040 accelerator 
and installed it in my A3000 according 
to the instructions, but then had prob- 
lems with it on boot-up and sometimes 
on warm reboots, loo. When I contact- 
ed GVP's BBS and left E-mail, I re- 
ceived a very prompt reply from Robert 
Miranda of their tech support I think 
he and CAT should be recognized for 
their conscientious elforts to solve mv 
problem. I hope this will be an incen- 
tive to other Amiga companies and 
dealers to do as well. 

Lawrence Aubin 
North Uxbridge, Mass. 

I bought an ICD Advantage 2000 
and a Quantum 105-meg hard drive, 
and they both operated without a hilch 
on my A2000 with Rev, 4.3 mother- 
board and Microbotics' 8-UP! RAM 
expansion. But when I fitted an ICD 
AdSpecd, nothing would work. In fact, 
the machine would not even boot, 
GURUing before it started. 

The point of my letter is to praise 
the helpfulness and patience of ICD, in 
particular the two men in the Amiga 
technical section. After hearing my 
problem, they suggested that it might 
stem from incompatibility with my 
RAM expansion, and they senl me — 
without charge — an ICD AdRAM to try. 
Unfortunately, it die! not solve the 
problem, and to complicate mailers, I 
had in the meantime installed Work- 
bench 2.04, which would not work with 
the hard drive. So I returned the Ad- 
RAM and made more phone calls, and 
within two weeks received — again with- 
out charge — two upgraded chips for 
the hard card. Now 1 have a machine 
that operates as it's supposed to, 

1 am amazed that a business 6000 
miles awav should be so helpful. Thank 
you, ICD. 

Mark Sims 
Hamilton, Nan Zealand 



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